Winner of the 2023 Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics award and recipient of grants from the Fondation l’Or du Rhin and the Banque Populaire, Julien Beautemps has been praised for “his musical intelligence, breathtaking virtuosity and mastery” (Radio France). Born in 2000, he completed his Diplôme d’Artiste Interprète (DAI) at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD) and earned a Master’s in solo performance at HEMU in Lausanne.
Beautemps has won more than a dozen international competitions, including the Grand Prix Musical Lauredia 2023, First Prize at the International PIF Castelfidardo Competition 2021, and First Prize at the Trophée Mondial de l’Accordéon 2024. He performs regularly abroad (Serbia, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland), appears on France Musique and RTS, and has collaborated with artists such as Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Bernold, Eléonore Pancrazi and Romain Leleu.
A frequent guest at festivals including La Société de Musique in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Radio France, Colmar, Pianoscope and Musicales de Bagatelle, he released his first solo album, Mechanics, on the Nügo label in 2022.
Described by Radio France as a “genius arranger”, Beautemps brings new soundscapes to works such as Mozart’s Requiem and Erwin Schulhoff’s Symphony No. 2, as well as offering his own interpretations of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel’s Boléro and Holst’s The Planets – both as part of Duo Argos (with guitarist Sotiris Athanasiou) and with his ensemble Méliphages. Julien Beautemps also performs his own compositions, including Mechanics and his Sonata for the Resurrection (for violin and accordion), both of which have been awarded prizes and acclaimed by critics.