00:00 Julien Hardy, you are bass player and soloist of Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
00:06 Tell us how you got this passion for this instrument.
00:11 It's simply the meeting with a teacher.
00:15 I was at school, in high school, and the teacher of the Rhineland Conservatory came to present his instrument in the class.
00:22 I fell in love with this instrument, also because the teacher's personality made me want to play this instrument.
00:29 It's a little-known instrument, but we hear it almost every day,
00:34 in cartoons, in movies, in commercials.
00:39 When we hear it, we can find it funny, melancholic, or even expressive.
00:46 For all these reasons, I fell in love with the bass.
00:49 You are, first of all, the first prize winner of the Paris International Concert.
00:55 You are a soloist since you were 19 years old, and today you are a soloist with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
01:01 At this level, you live every day with your instrument. Only this one exists.
01:06 It's a passion, we are always at full capacity, we dream about bass, we listen to a lot of music.
01:16 But I think it's very important to do something else.
01:20 I have children, so it's important to have other passions, so that when you are with your instrument, you can give your best.
01:27 But it's certain that when you make music, music in general is a passion, so you are constantly inhabited by it.
01:39 A little musical phrase to finish?
01:43 [Music]
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