Named ‘One to Watch’ by Chamber Music Scotland (2023), Juliette Lemoine is a Scottish cellist exploring and redefining the instrument’s role within contemporary Scottish Traditional Music. Her debut album ‘Soaring’, supported by the Beatrice Huntington Award for cellists, launched with a sold-out headline performance at Celtic Connections (2023), and was long-listed for the Scottish Album of the Year Award (2023). Her emotive compositions weave through Scottish Traditional, Western Classical, and Jazz genres in a unique instrumentation of cello, tenor saxophone (Matt Carmichael), piano (Fergus McCreadie), and fiddle (Charlie Stewart), to create a highly personal new voice. Juliette also performs in a duo with tenor-guitarist Chris Amer; recent highlights include their headline Celtic Connections show (2024), performing at London Jazz Festival (2024), and supporting LAU at King’s Place London (2024); and the newly formed female powerhouse trio Swinging on Birches with Madeleine Stewart (fiddle) and Heather Cartwright (guitar and voice).

Juliette is fascinated by the cello’s potential to take on a lead melodic role in a traditional music context, in the way a fiddle typically would, and finding ways to retain the same fluidity, bowing style, ornaments and authenticity. Her music has received airplay on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Scotland, and she has shared the stage with musicians including Matt Carmichael, Aidan O’Rourke, Katie Gregson-MacLeod, Fergus McCreadie, Brighde Chaimbeul, Graeme Stephenson, Corto Alto, Natalie Haas and Harben Kay. She joined Japanese Rock band MONO on their EU Tour 2024, and was recently selected as part of Serious’s ‘Take Five’ talent development program 2026.

Juliette teaches group cello classes at the Glasgow Folk Workshop, and has been invited to teach at the Auld Alliance Fiddle Camp in Brittany (2025) and Scots Fiddle Festival (2024, 2025). She is a member of Live Music Now Scotland with duo partners Nicky Murray and Chris Amer.