The Texas Flute Society is proud to present our
2024 guest artists
Julien Beaudiment
After holding the position of principal flute of the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Julien Beaudiment is today principal flute of the Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon and professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. He has also held the same position with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Great Britain. It is currently the only french musician to have held this position in a British Orchestra and one of the too few to do the same in an American Orchestra.
Originally from La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he crossed the English channel at the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies and Averil Williams. He subsequently entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de music de Paris, where he won the first prize of flute and chamber music in the class of Sophie Cherrier, Vincent Lucas, and Michel Moraguès for chamber music.
He learned from great flautists such as Maxence Larrieu, Jacques Zoon, Joshua Smith, Ransom Wilson, Vicens Prats and Benoît Fromanger.
His years in London and Los Angeles will have permanently marked and influenced his life both personally and musically.
His solo career is developing rapidly out of the Conservatoire de Paris. He plays as a soloist at major international concert halls as well as at renowned festivals, such as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Khumo Art Hall and the Art Center in Seoul, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the Tokyo Casals Hall, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Ljubljana philharmonic hall, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels , the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Opéra National de Montpellier, the Bilbao Opera, the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony Center, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, accompanied by the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes, the Stuttgart Kammerorchester, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie am Rhein, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Gangnam Philharmonic, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Marrinsky Orchestra…
From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, passing threw the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Royal Albert Hall in London, he plays in the most beautiful halls in the world with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestra Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Estonian Festival, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , the Hallé Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg, under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Paavo Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart , Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Evelino Pido, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Philippe Jordan, Ivan Fischer, Louis Langrée, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Manfred Honeck, Thomas Hengelbrocht, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Susanna Maliki… and musicians such as Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, as well as the composers John Adams, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher , and the Hollywood star John Williams.
A Chamber music enthusiast, he is a prize winner of the international competition of Barcelona for duo sonata with the pianist Laetitia Bougnol. He also performs next to musicians such as Lawrence Foster, Emil Tabakov, Karl Heinz Steffens, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enrico Onofri of Il Giardino Armonico, Stefano Montanari, Antal Szallai, Eric Crambe, Guillaume Sutre, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Oleg, Françoise Gnéri, Tasso Adamopoulos, Hartmut Rhode, Adrien Boisseau, Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anaïs Gaudemard, Christine Icart, Isabelle Moretti, Kyung Hee Sutre, Lluis Claret, Richard Hardwood , Jérôme Pernoo, Raphael Christian, Eric Lesage, Bruno Fontaine, Hervé Nkaoua, Florent Boffard Simon Zain, Didier Puntos, Roberte Mamou, Denis Pascal, Célimène Daudet, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean-François Zygel, Oliver Triendl, Ariane Jacob, the jazzman Antoine Hervé, the members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio, the Psophos and Diotima quartets, the flutists Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Michel Moraguès, Sophie Cherrier, Maxence Larrieu and Rachel Brown.
He has accompanied the choreographers Régine Chopinot and Benjamin Millepied playing Bach as a soloist, and expanded its activities by recording at Abbey Road in London with the pop star Sarah Brightman, in South Korea for the national Korean TV KBS, or in the studio during his American years in Los Angeles for the series “Doctor Who” and “Battle Star Galaktica”, as well as working with the actors Seth Macfarlane and Julie Andrews, the pop stars John Legend, Antony and the Johnsons, and Ruben Blades.
Teaching occupies a prominent place in his agenda. After having been the artistic deputy of José Daniel Castellon’s flute class at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, it is today the teacher of the flute class of the Cnsm in Lyon, where he succeeded his illustrious predecessors, Philippe Bernold and Maxence Larrieu.
He is also a visiting professor at the Pole Supérieur de Musique de Bordeaux, as well at the “Talent Music Masters” of Brescia in Italy.
He teaches every summer at the Nice International Summer Academy in France, as well as at the Orford Music Academy in Canada, the Cagliari International Music Academy in Italy and at the San Francisco Flute festival, and at numerous masterclasses throughout the world, in North America (Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, Manhattan School and Juilliard School in New York, Montreal University…) in Europe (Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Ljubljana Conservatory, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Valencia, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Granada in Spain, the Haute École de Musique de Genève, the Daniel Baremboim foundation in Seville…), and Asia (conservatories and universities in Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Beijing Central Conservatory and Shanghai Music Academy…).
http://www.julienbeaudiment.com/index-en.html/
Kim Scott
From her 2011 debut album, “Crossing Over”, to her #1 Billboard charting 2022 album, “SHINE!”, Innervision Records label recording artist Kim Scott has impressed audiences across the globe in performances and on the airwaves. Known for her exceptional tone, intoxicating melodies, and flawless technique, she is one of the most sought-after flutists in both the classical and jazz fields. The contemporary jazz superstar has an ever-growing fan base garnered from her continued presence on the performance scene and from her visibility as radio host of the nationally syndicated, two-hour jazz program, “Kim Scott’s Block Party Radio”, which airs weekly across the world. She’s a fresh image and sound for today’s contemporary jazz scene.
With five albums to her credit, Kim Scott has proven to be a mainstay in the field and promise for the future as both a soloist and collaborator. In 2022 she garnered her third #1 Billboard single on the charts and received Billboard’s placement for “Song of the Year” for her single, “SHINE!” In addition, the album “SHINE!” was the #1 album on Smooth Jazz Global’s “Year End Top 100 Albums Chart.” Ronald Jackson, a journalist for The Smooth Jazz Ride, states “Artists like Kim Scott bring exuberance to an art form long prophesied to be a thing of the past in short order by critics. When you listen to the Pied Piper-like allure and magic of her style, you come to the conclusion that those critics couldn’t be farther from the truth.” Her collaborations include performances and recordings with Jonathan Fritzen, James Lloyd, Jonathan Butler, Greg Manning, Jazmin Ghent, and others.
Kim Scott received a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and a Master of Music in Pedagogy and Performance from Oklahoma State University. As a National Board-Certified Teacher, Kim Scott, also known as Kim Strickland in the classical world, is the flute professor at the Alabama School of Fine Arts where she was formerly Chair of the Department of Music for 14 years before becoming Director of Student Support Services in 2019. An active teacher and clinician, Kim Scott has given clinics and masterclasses at Mid-South, International Festival of Flutists in South America, Bama Flute Fest, and Iowa Flute Fest conventions, to name a few, and has been selected to present concerts for various national conventions such as the National Flute Association. Kim is on the Board of Directors for the National Flute Association and the coordinator for NFA’s Jazz Flute Masterclass Competition. A versatile player, Kim is not only well-known as one of the top flutists in the country, but she is also known for her role as a member of the all-female jazz supergroup, Jazz in Pink, and the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.
Find Her At:
www.kimscott.live
http://kimscottmusic.com/
Leslie Richmond
Flutist Leslie Richmond was born in Portland, Oregon. In her hometown, she was the winner of the MetroArts Young Artists at the Schnitz competition, the Vancouver Symphony Young Artists competition, and the Portland Youth Philharmonic competition, after which she was invited several times to perform as soloist with orchestra. She was also a three-time first prize winner of the Oregon State Soloist Contest. More recently, she was first prize winner at the ‘Myrna Brown’ Competition with the Texas Flute Society, the ‘Clés d’Or’ Competition in Paris, the Young Artists Competition of the Flute Society of Washington, and the Golden Classical Music Awards for which she was invited to perform in a recital at Carnegie Hall.
Recognized for her work as a chamber artist and orchestral musician, she is co-founder of Ensemble Thaïs with violinist David Benetah, and a founding member of the ‘Latitudes’ flute quartet. She has performed with orchestras and at festivals in the United States, South America, and Europe under the baton of conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Josep Pons, Cristian Macelaru, and Kent Nagano, among others. Passionate about education and outreach, she is state-certified to teach in France at the highest levels and regularly invited to lead workshops for the nonprofit organization ‘Les Concerts de Poche.’
Leslie holds degrees in flute performance and French literature from Rice University, a ‘Diplôme de Concertiste’ from the École Normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris, and a Masters degree from the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Principal teachers include Vicens Prats, Jean Ferrandis, Leone Buyse, and other influences include Samuel Coles, Julien Beaudiment and Sandrine Tilly. She lives in Toulouse, France and teaches at the Foix-Varilhes Conservatory in the Ariège province.
Find Her At:
https://grapeflute.wixsite.com/ensemblethais