Featured Artist
Internationally renowned concert pianist Christie Julien made her solo debut with the National Symphony Orchestra playing Bartok’s Concerto no.3 under Maestro Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center. She recently performed with Eduardo Marturet and the Miami Symphony Orchestra’s Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini and toured China, Japan, South America, and Europe to great public and media acclaim.
Christie Julien has performed at prestigious venues at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Victoria Hall in Geneva, and the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin. In her native France, she performed at Theater des Champs Elysaes, Maison Radio France in Paris, the Nouveau Siecle in Lille, Palais des Congress in Nice, and does annual concerts at Salle Gaveau in Paris. She also performed two pianos with Andrei Korobelnikov in Moscow’s legendary Grand Hall of Tchaikovsky Conservatory, aired throughout Europe on Medici TV.
A specialist in the French repertoire, Julien’s discography includes recordings of music by Cesar Franck, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saens, and Maurice Ravel. In addition, she recorded with violinist Alexis Cardenas Prokofiev, deFalla and Piazzolla.
As an avid chamber musician, Ms. Julien regularly participates in some prestigious music festivals, including Salzburg, Santa Fe, La Jolla, Ravinia and Great Lakes and she made successful collaborations with artists such as Renaud Capucon, Alexander Markov, Jean Marc Phillips, Stephanie Degand, Alexander Knyazev, Paul Katz from the Cleveland Quartet, Dimitri Maslennikov, Emmanuelle Bertrand and many others. She is a regular jury member of the International piano competitions, including Margarita Long in Paris.
Christie Julien studied piano with the legendary pianist and pedagogue Leon Fleischer at Peabody Conservatory and obtained a prestigious “Artist Diploma”. In addition, she holds Yamaha and Lavoisier scholarships awarded by the French government and multiple prizes in solo piano and chamber music. Julien entered at the age 14 the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and was awarded first prizes in both solo and chamber music.
