Laureate of First Prize at the renowned Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017, in the first edition dedicated to the cello, Victor Julien-Laferrière also won First Prize, along with two special prizes, at the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 2012. In 2018, he was awarded the “Victoire de la Musique,” the most important classical music award in France, as “Instrumental Soloist of the Year.” 

Victor Julien-Laferrière regularly appears as a soloist with leading orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, among others, working with distinguished conductors such as Emmanuel Krivine, Valery Gergiev, Kristiina Poska, Tugan Sokhiev, François-Xavier Roth, Jun Märkl, and Philippe Herreweghe.

His recital and chamber music projects take him to prestigious venues and festivals such as Philharmonie de Paris, KKL Luzern, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Tonhalle Zürich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo, among others. 

Victor Julien-Laferrière also enjoys a notable career as a conductor, having led the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie, and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and he founded his own ensemble, the Orchestre Consuelo, which frequently collaborates with many of the leading French festivals.

He has an extensive discography, awarded with several prizes such as the “Diapason d’Or” in 2021, including works by Franz Schubert, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Edison Denisov, Antonín Dvořák, Bohuslav Martinů, Henri Dutilleux, and Pascal Dusapin, among others.

Victor studied with René Benedetti, and subsequently with Roland Pidoux at the Conservatoire de Paris, with Heinrich Schiff at the University of Vienna, and with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. At the same time, from 2005 to 2011, he was a member of the Seiji Ozawa International Music Academy.

He performs on a cello made by Domenico Montagnana and with a bow by Dominique Peccatte.