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Julien Hanck

Âgé de vingt-trois ans, Julien Hanck suit un parcours atypique. Ce n’est qu’après ses classes préparatoires en mathématiques au lycée Louis-le-Grand qu’il se tourne entièrement vers la musique. Parallèlement à ses études d'ingénieur à l'ESPCI et à son activité au sein de l'association "Le Cercle des Mélomanes" dont il est le fondateur, il joue régulièrement en soliste et en musique de chambre. Pianiste invité des Déconcertants, et désormais directeur artistique de l'ensemble, il assure à Paris la recréation française du Concerto pour piano et cordes d’Alfred Schnittke. Julien collabore également avec Diapason magazine, Jeanine Roze Production, et France Musique, pour lequel il a été producteur de l'émission "été classique" au mois de juillet.

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A second youth: the Chopin Competition welcomes period instruments

By Julien Hanck, 9 October 2018

Warsaw hosts the first ever Chopin Competition to feature period instruments. We wander between pianos by Érard, Pleyel and Graf and talk to finalists and jury members about this unique event.

9 Oct 2018

Second youth: period instruments at the Chopin Competition

By Julien Hanck

Chamber music in Paris, an insider guide

By Julien Hanck, 3 April 2018

Find out about lesser known and unexpected venues where you can enjoy chamber music in Paris.

3 Apr 2018

Chamber music in Paris, an insider guide

By Julien Hanck

The young take the high ground at Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad

By Julien Hanck, 21 December 2017

Both lynchpin and enlightened monarch, Renaud Capuçon lifts the curtain of the festival in his third year as its Artistic Director

21 Dec 2017

The young take the high ground at Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad

By Julien Hanck

The Fondation Louis Vuitton Auditorium : a temple for the celebration of youth

By Julien Hanck, 6 December 2017

We've already seen three years of intense activity, with dozens of shows of every type: recitals, concertos, chamber music, academic events, public masterclasses, jazz sessions. All this in a brand new space. It's a new and different feature of the musical landscape of Paris.

6 Dec 2017

Fondation Louis Vuitton: a temple to youth

By Julien Hanck

Jean-Guihen Queyras, cellist with a thousand faces, on tour with the Orchestre Métropolitain of Montreal

By Julien Hanck, 9 November 2017

Queyras will be touring Europe from the end of November with Yannick Nézét-Séguin and the Montreal-based orchestra. We meet a musician who is as passionate as he is eclectic.

9 Nov 2017

Jean-Guihen Queyras, the cellist with a thousand faces

By Julien Hanck

Cyprien Katsaris, the good genie of the piano

By Julien Hanck, 24 October 2017

Interview which strays off the beaten track with the pianist Cyprien Katsaris, ardent defender of piano transcription and of forgotten composers.

24 Oct 2017

Cyprien Katsaris, the good genie of the piano

By Julien Hanck

Moscow

Mieczysław Weinberg's The Idiot at the Bolshoi Theatre

By Julien Hanck, 8 October 2017

Completed in 1985 and premièred in Mannheim in 2013, Mieczysław Weinberg's The Idiot is a true rarity. Seeing it revived for the first time, it's thrilling to see the opera given the vocal and musical treatment it desrves, lending a helping hand to its return from oblivion.

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Moscow

8 Oct 2017

Mieczysław Weinberg's The Idiot at the Bolshoi Theatre

By Julien Hanck

London

Delta Piano Trio: virtuosity and elegance at Conway Hall

By Julien Hanck, 4 December 2016

Regarded by fellow musicians as one of the most promising young ensemble, the Delta Piano Trio have made a name for themselves with their raw, uncompromising musicianship, their energy and a willingness to invest oneself beyond comfort.

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London

4 Dec 2016

Virtuosity and elegance at Conway Hall

By Julien Hanck

Philippe Cassard, ardour turned to music

By Julien Hanck, 11 November 2016

Don't trust appearances, which are those of a man about town: at the piano, Philippe Cassard is the embodiment of the darkest Sturm und Drang.

11 Nov 2016

Philippe Cassard, ardour turned to music

By Julien Hanck

Gao Xuewen : playing cello through the Cultural Revolution

By Julien Hanck, 1 November 2016

I entered the Shanghai Conservatoire after the Cultural Revolution, towards 1978. When I arrived in Belgium, I was 23 years old and I didn't speak a word of French.

1 Nov 2016

Playing cello through the Cultural Revolution

By Julien Hanck

Budapest

Bartók beyond borders at Pesti Vigadó: Joolz Gale’s musical laboratory

By Julien Hanck, 9 October 2016

Bringing his six-year ‘Mini journey’ to Budapest for a Bartok mini-cycle, Joolz Gale delivered a detailed vision of the First Piano Concerto and the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Yet, a blazing performance of Bartók’s concerto for orchestra stole the show.

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Budapest

9 Oct 2016

Bartók beyond borders at Pesti Vigadó

By Julien Hanck

Budapest

Bartók double bill at Müpa: Bluebeard’s Castle in its uncontrived, uncontaminated, original glory!

By Julien Hanck, 7 October 2016

Hungarian critic Sandor Hevesy once declared that Bluebeard’s Castle was “far too dark”. Yet, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Miraculous Mandarin are probably the summation of his orchestral journey. And what better experience then making it to Budapest, to hear it in its birthplace?

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Budapest

7 Oct 2016

Bartók double bill at Müpa Budapest

By Julien Hanck

London

“The Piano Quartet” at Wigmore Hall: unconventionally strong and tangy

By Julien Hanck, 16 September 2016

Yesterday’s all-Romantic programme displaced the usual thing with incredible panache, as Daniel Hope’s violin surveyed the ensemble with regal bearing.

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