Manon Galy, Léa Hennino, Heloïse Luzzati, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Biographie Manon Galy, Léa Hennino, Heloïse Luzzati, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Manon Galy
Born in 1996 in Toulouse, Manon Galy began playing the violin at the age of 7 at the Cugnaux music school. At the age of 9, she entered the Toulouse Conservatory with Klaus Mühlberger then Magali Leduire, and continued her musical studies at the CRR in Paris with Suzanne Gessner. She entered the CNSMDP at the age of 16 in the class of Roland Daugareil and finished her Masters this year. Manon is the winner of several international competitions including UFAM (first prize first nominated) in Paris in 2009 and Andrea Postacchini in 2010. Tetiana Zolozova noticed her during an audition and invited her to take part in the Moscow Conservatory's international competition for which she won 2nd prize. During this competition, the Vladimir SPIVAKOV Foundation awarded him a special prize and invited him to Moscow for a recital. In 2013, she won the prize for the best interpretation of contemporary work at the Ginette Neveux competition in Avignon and in December 2014 won the CRR soloist competition in Paris, which led her to perform at the auditorium of the CRR, accompanied by the latter's symphony orchestra.
Léa Hennino
performs chamber music all over the world with renowned artists such as the Quatuor Modigliani, Christophe Coin, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Eric Le Sage, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Quatuor Kelemen, Nicolas Alstaedt, Nicolas Dautricourt, Adam Laloum, Francois Salque, David Kadoush, Pierre Fouchenneret, Marie et Guillaume Chilemme, Victor Julien-Lafferière, David Grimal, Edgar Moreau, Alina Pogotskina, Alena Baeva, Boris Brovtsyn, Daishin Kashimoto, Guy Braunstein, Nicholas Angelich, Gauthier Capuçon, Sarah Nemtanu, Yan Levionnois, Nelson Goerner, Marc Coppey, Anne Queffelec, Itamar Golan, Denis Pascal, Augustin Dumay, Alexis Kossenko, Charlotte Spruit, Daniel Sepec, Nathan Braude…
In 2014, she took part in a tour of Mozart’s complete string quintets at the invitation of Renaud Capucon, alongside Gérard Caussé and Clemens Hagen, in Europe’s finest concert halls…
As a soloist, she appears in recital, performing Martinü’s Concerto-Rhapsody in the Czech Republic and Mozart’s symphonie concertante with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra. She was also guest principal viola in Strauss’s Don Quichotte with the Orchestre de Picardie, and is a regular guest solo viola with orchestras such as Les Dissonances, conducted by David Grimal.
Léa collaborates regularly with cellist Héloïse Luzzati as part of La Boîte à Pépites and the festival Un Temps pour Elles, both dedicated to promoting and disseminating the works of women composers to foster greater equality in musical and artistic programming. She has contributed to several world-premiere recordings of rediscovered female composers.
As an associate artist with the ensemble I Giardini, she recorded the album Nuits with soprano Véronique Gens (awarded Diapason d’Or, Choc Classica, Clé de ResMusica, and France Musique’s Choice) and an album devoted to the music of Caroline Shaw (2022).
Léa also appears on Camille Pépin’s Chamber Music (Choc Classica 2019, France Musique’s Choice, FFF Télérama) as well as various other recordings.
In 2022, together with cellist Yan Levionnois, she created a project based on Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Don Quixote presented as a musical tale with actor Elliot Jenicot and illustrations by Cécile Pruvot. The performance was presented at the Saint-Céré Festival, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Saint-Denis Festival, and the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence.
Léa has been artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac since 2022. This invaluable support enables her to benefit from rehearsal rooms in one of the most sumptuous private mansions in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The foundation also provides access to an instrumental collection and the organization of concerts as part of the musical season.
In 2023, Léa co-founded the Fidelio Quartet with violinists Camille Fonteneau and Verena, and cellist Maria Andréa Mendoza. Their collaboration celebrates the great masterpieces of the repertoire while also exploring works by lesser-known composers. Eager to broaden their musical horizons, the ensemble regularly forms sextets or piano and vocal quintets.
A graduate of the CNSM in Paris, Léa went on to perfect her skills with Nobuko Imai and Lawrence Power in Switzerland. She won prizes at national and international competitions, became a laureate of several Foundations and was selected to take part in prestigious Festival Academies such as Krzyzowa Music for Europe (Poland), Kronberg “Cello Plus” (Germany), Ravinia Steans Music Institut (USA), Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland), IMS Prussia Cove (England), Aurora Chamber Music (Sweden), Encuentro de Santander (Spain).
Léa performs on a viola by Roland Belleguic, crafted in collaboration with Patrick Robin in 2025, and uses a bow by Thierry Doison made in Lille.
Héloïse Luzzati
is a French cellist dedicated to bringing forgotten female composers to light in the history of music. She began playing the cello at the age of 5 with Christophe Combes at the Le Mans Conservatory. She then joined the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris – CNR in 2002 in Marcel Bardon’s class, where she earned a first prize in 2006. That same year, she was admitted to the Royal College of Music in London and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Roland Pidoux and Xavier Phillips.
A passionate chamber music enthusiast, Héloïse Luzzati studied with the Ysaye Quartet at the CNR in Paris and with Marc Coppey at the CNSM. She has also participated in masterclasses with renowned chamber musicians such as Peter Cropper, Hatto Bayerle, and Alain Planès. She has had the opportunity to perform with renowned partners such as Alexandre Tharaud, Edna Stern, Ferenc Vizi, Julian Steckel, Roland Pidoux and Graf Mourja.
In addition to her performing career, Héloïse Luzzati is committed to the research and promotion of forgotten women composers. She founded the association “La Cité des Compositrices,” which aims to restore visibility to the works of female composers. She created an online Festival, “Un Temps pour Elles,” which celebrates masterpieces by female composers of all nationalities and eras.
Héloïse Luzzati also launched a YouTube channel, “La Boîte à Pépites,” which features discovery videos about female composers, as well as a record label of the same name. She released her first triple-disc album dedicated to the composer Charlotte Sohy in 2022. She has also published monographs on composers such as Rita Strohl, Jeanne Leleu, and Charlotte Sohy. Convinced that the absence of women in current musical programming is due to an underrepresentation in heritage, Héloïse Luzzati has made it her mission to “bring to light” these talented female composers. She scours libraries and collaborates with volunteers to find and preserve the scores of their forgotten works.
Celia Oneto Bensaid
is shaping a career in her own image, highlighting a unique repertoire that defines the signature of this pianist, who develops her singularity and willingly ventures off the beaten path.
Graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with five first prizes awarded with the highest distinctions, she then joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she received the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste, while benefiting from the guidance of Claire Désert, Brigitte Engerer, Maria João Pires, Jean-Claude Pennetier and Rena Shereshevskaya, who particularly inspired and enriched her.
Today, it is on the most prestigious stages that she carefully chooses the repertoires she champions: American music (including her own transcriptions), French music, contemporary works, and music by women composers play a major role in her programs. She has notably premiered numerous pieces by Kaija Saariaho, Diana Syrse, Camille Pépin, and Fabien Waksman.
A Yamaha artist, supported by the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Fondation Safran, Célia is a laureate of numerous inter- national competitions both in solo and chamber music (Piano Campus, Fondation Cziffra, Concours Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Pro Musicis, HSBC Prize of the Aix-en-Provence Lyric Festival, etc.); in 2017, she also received the Audience Award from the Société des Arts in Geneva, and in 2020 became the first winner in the “Classical Music” category of the Trophée K2.
Recently, she has performed with the Avignon-Provence Orchestra under the baton of Debora Waldman, the Brittany Orchestra with Aurélien Azan Zielinski and Anna Duczmal-Mróz, the Garde Républicaine conducted by François Boulanger, and the Opéra de Toulon Orchestra under Lucie Leguay, in concertos from the “great repertoire” (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Franck, Liszt…) as well as in concertos by Vítězslava Kaprálová and Marie Jaëll. In recital and chamber music, she has been heard at the Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, L’Esprit du Piano in Bordeaux, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Grand Theatre in Harbin (China), the Salamanca Hall (Japan), Salle Bourgie (Montreal), and Wigmore Hall in London.
A sought-after chamber musician, she performs alongside Renaud Capuçon, Elsa Dreisig, Marie-Laure Garnier, Olivia Gay, the Hanson Quartet, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati, Raphaëlle Moreau, and Alexandre Pascal.
Her discography, which includes around ten recordings and has received numerous awards, reflects her favorite repertoires: following the album American Touches centered on Bernstein and Gershwin came Metamorphosis featuring works by Glass, Pépin, and Ravel; Songs of Hope with soprano Marie-Laure Gar- nier; and a recording dedicated to Pièces de Dante by Marie Jaëll (Présence Compositrices label). In chamber music, she records with the Hanson Quartet (B Records), Raphaëlle Moreau (Mirare), Olivia Gay (Fuga Libera), and actively contributes to the projects of La Boîte à Pépites (Sohy, Strohl, Leleu…).
An eclectic artist, she is also an actress in the MAB Collec- tif’s projects (Cendrillon, avec ma sœur and Comment je suis devenue Olivia), serves as a hand double in feature films, and appears as a pianist in the series Les Sauvages and Validé (Canal Plus). She also records original soundtracks for various films, documentaries, and series (Les Sauvages on Canal Plus, Rouge by Farid Bentoumi, Le Tourbillon de la vie by Olivier Treiner, Sous la Seine by Xavier Gens, etc.).
After being artist-in-residence at the Opéra Grand Avignon during the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 seasons, she released her latest solo CD Sparklight (NoMadMu- sic) in 2024, featuring concertos (Liszt No. 1 and Jaëll No. 1) with the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence, which was notably featured in Le Figaro, Le Monde, and on France Inter.
Holder of the French teaching diploma (C.A.), she now teaches at the Conservatoire of the 18th arrondissement in Paris and is regularly invited to join the round table on La Tribune des Cri- tiques on France Musique.
