Biographies of the speakers
♫ Célia Oneto Bensaïd, pianist
Having left the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with five prizes obtained with the best distinctions, she joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris which awarded her the advanced concertist diploma, benefiting at the same time from the advice of Claire Désert, Brigitte Engerer , Maria João Pires, Jean-Claude Pennetier or Rena Shereshevskaya, who particularly inspired her. On the biggest stages, she notably performs American and French music and that of composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Diana Syrse, Camille Pépin. Yamaha artist, supported by the Banque Populaire Foundation, Célia is a winner of international competitions: Piano Campus, Cziffra Foundation, Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition, Pro Musicis, HSBC Prize of the Aix-en-Provence Lyric Festival, winner in the “category” Classical Music” from the K2 Trophy (2020). In recital and chamber music, he has been heard at the Philharmonie de Paris, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, at Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, l’Esprit du Piano à Bordeaux, La Folle Journe de Nantes , the Avignon Opera, at the Grand Théâtre de Harbin (China), at the Salamanca Hall (Japan), Salle Bourgie (Montreal) and at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Francine Cabane, professor at the Ecole Normale and IUFM, vice-president of the Academy of Nîmes
Hélène Deronne, art historian, honorary museum curator, honorary lecturer at the University of Avignon, member of the Academy of Nîmes
Sylvie Roux, professor at the Departmental Radiation Conservatory of Nîmes
Sabine Teulon Lardic, research musicologist at the University of Montpellier3 (CRISES laboratory), member of the Nîmes Academy
