Hervé Joulain (born 1966) is a French horn player.

Biography

Born in

Saint-Romans-lès-Melle Saint-Romans-lès-Melle (, literally ''Saint-Romans near Melle'') is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. See also *Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Deux-Sèvres ...

( Deux-Sèvres), Joulain was Premier French horn super-soloist of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France under the direction of Marek Janowski. From the age of 20, Joulain played under the direction of

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, Zubin Mehta,

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, Armin Jordan,

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, Riccardo Muti,

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. Ten years later, he was promoted to the same position at the Orchestre national de France conducted by

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. Today, he has joined Lorin Maazel as first horn at the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parme. Joulain is also a member of the wind octet of the Opéra Bastille with whom he regularly travels abroad. He has already recorded about twenty CDs.Discography
on Discogs His career as a

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ian also led him to perform with Paul Tortelier, Yuri Bashmet, Pierre Amoyal, Vadim Repin,

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, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Belkin, Pinchas Zukerman, Natalia Gutman, Gidon Kremer, in France and abroad. After teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris, Joulain now devotes himself to master classes throughout France as well as in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Canada and Finland.

References

External links

Hervé Joulain
on

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Hervé Joulain
on the BBC
Poulenc - Elegie for horn and piano - Hervé Joulain & Frank Peters
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