Julien Chauvin was attracted at an early age by the Baroque revolution and the new wave of historically informed performance practice using period instruments and moved to the Netherlands to train at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Vera Beths, who founded L’Archibudelli with Anner Bylsma. In 2003, he was a prizewinner at the International Early Music competition in Bruges, and since then he has performed as a soloist.
Realising his desire to bring back to life a celebrated ensemble of the eighteenth century, in 2015 he formed a new orchestra, Le Concert de la Loge. The ambitions of this modern recreation have been demonstrated by its exploration of forgotten works from the French orchestral and vocal-operatic repertory and concert formats encouraging spontaneous and imaginative reactions from the audience.
In parallel with this, he continues his collaboration with the Quatuor Cambini-Paris, formed in 2007, with which he performs the string quartets of Jadin, David, Gouvy, Mozart, Gounod and Haydn.
Julien Chauvin explores musical direction in the spirit of the late 18th century, when a great diversity of approaches to conducting could be observed. He therefore adapts his approach according to repertoire, instrumentation, or the constraints of the scores, conducting either from the violin or with a baton.
Julien Chauvin has also conducted operatic productions such as Era la notte (Juliette Deschamps), Phèdre by Lemoyne and Cendrillon by Isouard (productions by the Palazzetto Bru Zane, directed by Marc Paquien), Armida by Haydn (Mariame Clément), Chimène ou le Cid by Sacchini (Sandrine Anglade), Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart (Christophe Rulhes), and more recently Don Giovanni by Mozart (Jean-Yves Ruf).
