Both a virtuoso cellist and acclaimed conductor, Victor Julien-Laferrière was born in Paris in 1990. He first studied the cello with René Benedetti, then with Roland Pidoux at the Conservatoire de Paris, Heinrich Schiff at the University of Vienna and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He conducted his first concerts at the age of 12, and joined in 2011 the Paris Chamber Orchestra's conducting academy, where he received guidance from Josef Swensen, Heinrich Schiff and Stephen Kovacevich. He then studied with Nicolas Brochot and took part in masterclasses with Johannes Schlaefli in Vilnius and in Basel with the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

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Victor Julien-Laferrière has been invited to conduct the Wiener KammerOrchester, the Paris Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Czech Chamber Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, and the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen.

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In 2021, he founded his own ensemble, Orchestre Consuelo, with which he performs regularly at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, La Folle Journée in Nantes, and the festivals of La Chaise-Dieu and Rocamadour. They have also performed at the Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris, La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad, in Geneva, Lisbon, Annecy, at the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, the Chambord Festival... and have collaborated with soloists such as Renaud Capuçon, Alexandre Kantorow, Anne Queffélec, David Fray, Steven Isserlis, Bomsori Kim, Yulianna Avdeeva and Nelson Goerner.

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With Orchestre Consuelo, Victor Julien-Laferrière has already produced a prolific discography, recording Brahms' Serenades Op. 11 and 16 and Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suites (second volume forthcoming) for the Mirare label, and recording Beethoven's complete symphonies live at the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu for the b·records label (last volume to be released).

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As a cellist, he has won numerous international competitions and prizes, including First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017 and a Victoire de la Musique Classique award in 2018. He has performed as a soloist with conductors Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Kristiina Poska, François-Xavier Roth, Nathalie Stutzmann and Mikko Franck, with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Les Siècles, etc.

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Whether with orchestra or in chamber music, his recordings, released on Alpha Classics, Mirare, Sony Classical and b·records, have received several awards: Diapason d'Or, Choc de Classica, ffff from Télérama. He plays a cello by Domenico Montagnana and uses a bow by Dominique Peccatte.

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Victor Julien-Laferrière is also the artistic director of Les Sensationnelles festival in Sens and the Festival du Comminges, and has been a member of the artistic committee of La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival since 2025.

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