Bios of Manon Galy & Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan
Les Rendez-Vous musicaux de l'Hippodrome 2025 - November 15
Born in Toulouse and Havana, it was at the CNSM in Paris that Manon and Jorge first met in 2014. From this friendship came a natural desire to share music and the stage; they founded the Zeliha trio in 2018 and began playing in duo at the same time.
In 2021, they won 1st prize, the Audience prize and 5 special prizes in sonata at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition.
Manon was named Instrumental Soloist Revelation at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique awards, and was a prizewinner in the Jascha Heifetz, Marie Cantagrill, Ginette Neveu and Andrea Postacchini competitions, while Jorge won the KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen and the Clara Haskil competition.
Both musicians are individual winners of the Banque Populaire, Safran and Oulmont foundations.
They perform at numerous festivals, in solo, duo and with their trio Zeliha, founded alongside cellist Maxime Quennesson: Festival international de piano de La Roque d'Anthéron, Folle journée de Tokyo and Nantes, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Rencontres musicales d'Evian, La Chaise-Dieu festivals, Radio France Montpellier, Deauville and Pont-Croix festivals... As well as prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, among others.
Manon and Jorge are also regular soloists with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, the chamber orchestras of Vienna, Salzburg, Lausanne, Toulouse and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Lithuanian National Symphony orchestra, the ONPL, the philharmonic orchestras of Monte-Carlo, Nice and Marseille...
They collaborate with such great conductors as Christian Macelaru, Renaud Capuçon, Aziz Shokhakimov, Bertrand de Billy, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Lawrence Foster, Victorien Vanoosten, Gabor Tackaks-Nagy, Patrick Davin and Simone Menezes.
Their album "Nuits parisiennes", released as a duo on the Aparté label in February 2023, is crowned with a Diapason d'Or de l'année, 5 Classica stars and 4T Télérama. A new album will be released at the end of March 2026 by the same label. They are part of Beau Soir Productions, a production company founded by Renaud Capuçon.
