After holding the position of first solo flute at the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic, Julien Beaudiment is now first solo flute of the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon conducted by Daniele Rustioni and professor at the Conservatoire de région de Rueil Malmaison (Paris) as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon where he succeeded his illustrious predecessor Philippe Bernold.

He also held the same position in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He is currently the only French musician to have held this position in a British orchestra and one of the few to do the same in an American orchestra.

Originally from La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he crossed the Manche at the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies. He then entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he obtained the first flute and chamber music prizes in Sophie Cherrier's class.
His years spent in London and Los Angeles will have definitely marked and influenced his life both personally and musically.

His soloist career developed rapidly when he left the Paris Conservatory. He performs as a soloist at renowned festivals and on major international stages such as the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Salle Gaveau, the Marrinsky de Saint Petersburg, the Khumo Art Hall and the Art Centre in Seoul, the Tokyo Bunka Kaïkan, the Tokyo Casals Hall, the Philharmonie de Essen, the Ljubljana Philharmonie, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the National Opera in Lyon, the Opera National de Montpellier, the Opera in Bilbao, the Teatro Lyrico in Cagliari, the Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony Centre, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Voxman concert hall in Iowa City, the Brisbane Griffith Hall in Australia, the Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, accompanied by the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon, the Symphony and Lyric Orchestra of Nancy, the Marriinsky Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes, the Stuttgart Kammerorchester, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie am Rhein, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neus, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Gangnam Philharmonic, the Leopoldinum Symphony of Wroclaw, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Royal Bangkok Symphony, and the orchestra Nice Philharmonic.

From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, through the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or the Royal Albert Hall in London, he performs in the most beautiful halls in the world with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Estonian Festival Orchestra, the "Dissonances", the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, the Hallé Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Orchestra, the Paris Orchestra, the Paris National Opera Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Orchestra From Hamburg, under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Alan Gilbert, Edo de Waart, Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Ivan Fischer, Evelino Pido, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Philippe Jordan, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Louis Langrée, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Leonard Slatkin... musicians Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, as well as composers John Adams, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher, and Hollywood star John Williams.

Passionate about chamber music, he is the winner of the Barcelona international duet sonata competition with pianist Laetitia Bougnol. He has also performed with musicians such as the conductors Lawrence Foster, Benjamin Levy, Lavard Skou Larsen, Emil Tabakov, Kazushi Ono, Karl Heinz Steffens, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enrico Onofri du Giardino Armonico, Stefano Montanari, the soloists David Grimal, Éric Crambes, Guillaume Sutre, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Oleg, Françoise Gnéri, Tasso Adam Hartmut, Rhode, Adrien Boisseau, Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anaïs Gaudemard, Isabelle Moretti, Lluis Claret, Richard Hardwood, Jerome Pernooo, Eric Lesage, Bruno Fontaine, Hervé Nkaoua, Hervé Billaut, Florent Boff, Emmanuel Strosser, Marie Joseph, Simon Zaoui, Denis Pascal, Celimène Daudet, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean François Zygel, Ariane Jacob, Celia Oneto Bensaïd, Manuel Rossfelder and Eric Franceries, the members of the Wiener Philharmoniker, the München Philharmoniker, the Bayerische Rundfunkt, the Mariinsky, the Psophos and Diotima quartets, the flutists Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Rachel Brown, Maxence Larrieu....

He accompanied choreographers Régine Chopinot and Benjamin Millepied by playing Bach solo, and expanded his activities by recording in London at Abbey Road with pop star Sarah Brightman, in South Korea for the national channel KBS, or in the studio during his American years in Los Angeles for the series "Doctor Who" and "Battle Star Galaktica", as well as collaborating with actors Seth Macfarlane and Julie Andrews, pop stars John Legend, Antony and the Johnsons, and Ruben Blades.

He teaches every summer at the international summer academy of Nice, and at the academy of the Forget domain in Canada, as well as at many masterclasses around the world: Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, Manhattan School, Mannes Shool of Music and Juilliard School in New York, University of Montreal, University of North Texas in Dallas, the University of Miami, the Iowa City University, Brisbane Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music in London, Royal Northern College of Manchester, Helsinki Academy, Conservatoire de Ljubljana, Saint Petersburg, Musikhochschule Hamburg, Universität sur Musik Wien, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Valencia, Granada, Madrid, the Geneva High School of Music, the Daniel Baremboim Foundation of Seville, conservatories and universities of Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Central Conservatory of Beijing, Shanghai Music Academy...

In 2025, he was named “Distinguished artist” by the Franco-Canadienne Cultural Exchange through which he was an artist in residence at the University of Toronto.

Julien gives an important place in his life as an ambassador of the "Reymn Foundation" and as a "Board member" of "Music Beyond", an American association based in New York aimed at training and supporting young musicians in Africa.

3 records are to his credit, "California dreamin'" for the Klarthe label, and for the Orchid Classics label "Badinerie" in recital with the harpist Marie Pierre Langlamet, and "Mozart" accompanied by the orchestra of the Lyon National Opera.
Julien Beaudiment