Jocelyn Mathevet

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

Joint director

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Jocelyn started his musical education at the regional conservatory of Saint-Étienne. He is laureate of the Selmer competition ‘Lutèce’ and of the european competition for young trumpet players in Alençon and was unanimously admitted to the class of Antoine Curé and Bruno Nouvion at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. There he won in 2010 his chamber music prize, as a part of a brass quintet with which he represented the Paris conservatory in a series of concerts in Tokyo. He graduated with a trumpet Master’s degree in 2012. He has been playing in internationally renowned orchestras (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National d’Île de France, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, …) which has allowed him to experience some of the greatest orchestral conductors, such as C. Eschenbach, T. Sokhiev, S. Mälkki, D. Ziman and others. He was also part of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in 2010 and 2011 (dir. P. Boulez, P. Eötvös, D. Robertson, …). Being also involved in the field of creating contemporary music, he created in 2011 at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music in Paris ‘WAM’ for trumpet and electro-acoustic system. In 2012 he was invited by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra to play the solo part in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s ‘Blood on the floor’, notably alongside the famous jazz drummer Peter Erskine. After having been solo trumpet at the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire between 2011 and 2012, he has been solo trumpet at the Opéra National de Lyon since 2013. He has also been solo trumpet in various projects of the Chambre Philharmonique (E. Krivine). In 2016 he played the concert for trumpet and orchestra by Henri Tornasi, alongside his colleagues from the Lyon opera orchestra, under the baton of K. Ono.