Bios of Manon Galy & Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan
Les Rendez-Vous musicaux de l'Hippodrome 2025 - November 15
Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan bio :
Born in 1994, Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan first studied piano in Cuba. In 2019, he was a finalist in the Clara Haskil Competition, where he received the Prix Coup de Cœur de la Jeune Critique. In 2021, he won the 1st Prize and 4th Special Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition with violinist Manon Galy. He also won 1st Prize and Audience Prize at the KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen. Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan performs regularly with orchestras such as the Orchestre national de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Latvian National Orchestra and the Orchestre national de Monte Carlo, under conductors such as Christian Zacharias, Renaud Capuçon, Gabor Tacacz Nagy, Lawrence Foster, Vassily Sinaiski and Stanislav Kochanovsky, among others. He is invited to perform on prestigious stages such as the Grange au Lac at the Evian Festival, the Guild Hall in Riga, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Festival de La Roque d'Anthéron, where he gave the closing concert alongside Renaud Capuçon, and the Stars and Rising Stars Festival alongside Elisabeth Leonskaja.
Manon Galy's bio :
Named "Instrumental Soloist Revelation" at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique awards, Manon Galy was born in Toulouse and began playing the violin at the age of 7.
Her studies took her from the Toulouse CRR to the Paris CRR, then from the Paris CNSMD to the Munich Hochschule with Julia Fischer, via the Philippe Jaroussky academy and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Waterloo, where she is currently in residence with the Zeliha trio.
Manon is a prizewinner in numerous international competitions, including the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2021, where she won 1st prize and all the special prizes in sonata with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, the Jascha Heifetz International Competition in Vilnius (3rd prize and audience prize), Premio Trio di Trieste with the Zeliha trio (2nd prize) and the Ginette Neveu, Postacchini and Marie Cantagrill competitions.
She is also a laureate of the Banque Populaire and Safran foundations, as well as the AMOPA and Charles Oulmont foundations.
In 2022-2023, Manon is part of the "Euroradio Top Young Performers Series" alongside artists such as Maria Dueñas, Jonathan Fournel, Maria Ioudenitch and Zlatomir Fung.
Manon appears regularly as soloist with various international orchestras; the chamber orchestras of Vienna, Salzburg, Lausanne, Toulouse and Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Lithuanian National Symphony orchestra, the Brasov Philharmonic orchestra and many others.She has collaborated with such great conductors as Renaud Capuçon, Sacha Goetzel, Aziz Shokhakimov, Victorien Vanoosten, Gabor Takáks-Nagy, Bertrand De Billy, David Molard-Soriano and Simone Menezes, among others.
In France and throughout the world, she is a regular guest at major festivals: the Festival International de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron, the Easter Festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Deauville, Colmar, the Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Al-Bustan Festival (Lebanon), the Folle Journée de Nantes and Tokyo (Japan)... And she performs in such legendary venues as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Seine Musicale, the Vilnius Philharmonic, the RHOM Theatre Kyoto among others.
In the course of these concerts, Manon is lucky enough to share the stage with many artists, including Renaud Capuçon, Corina Belcea, the Modigliani and Hermès quartets, François Salque, Marie Chilemme, Patrick Messina, Marie-Joseph Judde, Marc Coppey, the Arnold trio and Aurélien Pascal.
A chamber musician at heart, Manon Galy founded Trio Zeliha in 2018 with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan and Maxime Quennesson. Their first disc, released in 2020 on the Mirare label, was acclaimed by the critics (5 diapason, 5 stars from Classica, Editor's choice at Gramophone magazine...), as was their latest disc, released in May 2024, also garnering 5 stars from Classica, 4T Télérama and "Choix de Laure Mézan" in Pianiste magazine.
"Nuits Parisiennes", released in February 2023 on the Aparté label and the result of a duo with pianist Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, wins a Diapason d'Or de l'année, 5 stars from Classica and 4T Télérama.
Manon is also a member of Ensemble K, a variable-geometry ensemble founded by Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes.
As a soloist and with the Zeliha trio, Manon has joined the "Beau Soir productions" production company, directed by Renaud Capuçon.