Juliette Hurel is a French flutist. She won first prizes for flute and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, and won other awards in competitions in Darmstadt, Kobé, and Bucharest, as well as at the Concours de flûte
Jean-Pierre-Rampal. She frequently performs chamber music with cellists
Gary Hoffman and
Jean-Guihen Queyras, violist
Yuri Bashmet, violinist
Shlomo Mintz, harpist
Marielle Normann, pianist
Stephen Kovacevich, and the
Wanderer Trio. She has also appeared as a concerto soloist with various orchestras across France. Through her specialization in contemporary music, she is associated with
Pierre Boulez,
Pascal Dusapin, and
Éric Tanguy. She has made various recordings for Naïve,
Timpani, and Zig-Zag Territoires, often with her longtime accompanist, pianist
Hélène Couvert.
Hurel teaches flute at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, and is a member of the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.