JULIE DEPARDIEU

Passionate about cinema, Julie Depardieu started out behind the scenes at the age of 15, taking part in various technical training courses, but it was only later that Josée Dayan brought her behind the camera. A few years later, her role in Claude Miller’s La Petite Lili earned her a double César award: Best Supporting Actress and Best Emerging Actress. Again under the watchful eye of Claude Miller, she won a third César: Best Supporting Actress for Un secret in 2008. In 2014, Julie Depardieu attracted considerable attention in Cécile Telerman’s drama Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles. It’s impossible to sum up Julie Depardieu’s career without mentioning her close connection with the stage, with numerous theater appearances in classical and contemporary adaptations (Balzac, Molière, Dubillard) alongside great directors such as Michel Fau, or Salomé Lellouch, which earned her several Molière nominations. An avid classical music fan, she has directed Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, and in February 2024 staged The Magic Flute, adapted for children (Une petite flûte) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. For several years she was a regular voice on France Musique. She regularly takes part in musical readings at various concerts and festivals. She also toured with “Misia Sert, Reine de Paris”, accompanied by flutist Juliette Hurel and pianist Hélène Couvert.

JULIETTE HUREL

Juliette Hurel has won first prize for flute at the CNSMDP and numerous international competitions. In 2004, she was named “Instrumental Soloist of the Year” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards. In demand throughout the world, she performs chamber music at the Cité de la Musique, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Provence, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam… Invited by major festivals : Festival International de la Roque d’Anthéron, “La Folle Journée” in Nantes, she appears as soloist with the leading French orchestras, as well as with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, the Hong-Kong Sinfonietta. In 1993, eager to form a true flute and piano duo, Juliette Hurel began a collaboration with Hélène Couvert, with whom she enjoys discovering forgotten works as well as championing the great repertoire. This musical and friendly complicity has given rise to several albums. In 2019, Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert and actress Julie Depardieu have decided to pay tribute to muse and patron Misia Sert, in a show entitled “Misia, Reine de Paris”. It is with great pleasure that they continue to bring to life this woman of fascinating destiny.

HÉLÈNE COUVERT

From winning the first prize from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in Dominique Merlet’s class, Hélène Couvert went on to perfect her skills with Marie-Françoise Bucquet, then on the shores of Lake Como, at the Theo Lieven Foundation, where she received advice from the greatest masters, including Leon Fleisher. She performs at major festivals – La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano en Valois, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Piano aux Jacobins, Serres d’Auteuil – and tours in the Netherlands, Spain, Hong Kong, Lithuania and Poland, Poland and performs in France with, among others, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Paul Mc Creesh, the Orchestre d’Auvergne conducted by Arie Van Beek, the Orchestre Perpignan Méditerranée and the Orchestre Symphonique d’Orléans. Her first solo disc, devoted to Haydn, is released by Zig-Zag Territoires. This was followed by an equally exhilarating Beethoven disc – awarded a Choc du Monde de la Musique – and a recording devoted to Janacek, also on Zig-Zag Territoires. In chamber music, Hélène Couvert regularly performs with privileged partners such as flutist Juliette Hurel. The French pianist has made several recordings for Lyrinx, Zig-Zag Territoires, Naïve and on Alpha with Juliette Hurel. Their latest album, “Nature Romantique”, with cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand, was released in July 2023.