Winner of the First Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017 (for the first year dedicated to the cello), Victor Julien-Laferrière was described as "one of the most reliable talents of the young generation of French cellists" by Diapason magazine. He also received first prize and two special prizes at the 2012 Prague Spring International Competition, and in France in 2018, the Victoire de la Musique, in the instrumental soloist of the year category. During the 2023/24 season he performs on cello with the Lille National Orchestra under the direction of François Leleu as well as with the Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra with Antonio Méndez. He is also invited by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for the Brahms double concerto with the violinist Simone Lamsma, in Utrecht with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic to play the Poem for cello and orchestra by Henriëtte Bosmans, in Brussels with the Belgian National Orchestra for Haydn's second cello concerto.

Further afield, Victor Julien-Laferrière has performed with renowned orchestras around the world, including the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the BBC Philharmonic, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne, the Orchester de Paris, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester National de France, the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchester National de Lyon, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgium National Orchestra , Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Les Siècles, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Kristiina Poska, Emmanuel Krivine, Tugan Sokhiev, Elim Chan, Maxim Emelyanychev, Hanna Chang, François-Xavier Roth, Jun Märkl, Philippe Herreweghe, Nathalie Stutzmann, Stéphane Denève, Joshua Weilerstein, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Gergely Madaras and Ben Glassberg. Her recital and chamber music projects lead her to perform in prestigious halls and festivals such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Wien, Lucerne KKL, Brussels BOZAR, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Zurich Tonhalle, Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs -Elysées, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Essen Philharmonie, Phillips Collection in Washington, Prague Spring International Music Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Rheingau Musik Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Brussels Cello Festival, Copenhagen Summer Festival, Folles Journes à Nantes and Tokyo.

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Victor Julien-Laferrière also develops an important activity as a conductor. He conducts the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Orchester National d’Ile de France and the Rouen Opera Orchestra on tour as well as the Paris Chamber Orchestra. In 2021, he founded his own ensemble, the Consuelo Orchestra, which is developing intense activity in France and abroad.

In addition, he has recorded numerous albums: his latest recordings for Alpha Classics include the album of two concertos Dutilleux / Dusapin concerts recorded with the Orchester National de France between 2021 and 2022, recordings awarded a Diapason D'Or 2023.

Also at Alpha Classics, the album of the two concertos by Dvořák and Martinu with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège conducted by Gergely Madaras distributed in 2021.

In 2019 the album was critically acclaimed, dedicated to Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Denisov with pianist Jonas Vitaud.

Victor Julien-Laferrière recorded an album dedicated to Schubert, in collaboration with the trio Les Esprits (Sony Music, 2019), which received the best rating from the French magazine Télérama.

At the end of 2023 he recorded the complete piano trios of Schumann with the brothers Théo and Pierre Fouchenneret under the French label B-Records.

At the head of the Consuelo Orchestra, he published Brahms – Sérénades in 2023 for the Mirare label and continued over four years with a complete set of Beethoven symphonies live for the B.Records label (first publication 2024)

Victor Julien-Laferrière studied with René Benedetti, then successively with Roland Pidoux at the CNSM in Paris, Heinrich Schiff at the University of Vienna and Clemens Hagen at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Salzburg. He also participated in the Seiji Ozawa International Music Academy Switzerland from 2005 to 2011. He plays on a cello by Domenico Montagnana and with a bow by Dominique Peccatte.