THURSDAY, JULY 23
4 PM: CONCERT
Music
on the water
A dreamlike journey from source to sea
The City of Women Composers
Fiona McGown, mezzo-soprano
Manon Galy, Raphaëlle Moreau , violins
Léa Hennino , viola
Héloïse Luzzati , cello
Célia Oneto Bensaid , piano
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in detail
Prelude to an Afternoon by the River… The sonic hues of Impressionism blend with the reflections and scents of the gardens. Guided by the six musicians, the water flows between the composers and is transformed into music: reflections, fluidity, the lapping of water against stones, or the rhythms of rain. “Musiques sur l’eau” by Rita Strohl, “Quintette Wolga” by Maria Bach, “what remains when the last note fades?
Perhaps the ear retains the trace of a wave, the skin that of a fine rain, and the body the sensation of having walked along the edge of something… ” Thanks to the passionate historical work carried out by the Cité des Compositrices, its founder, cellist Héloïse Luzzati—who will guide our listening—and the musicians committed to this mission, which is as much about archaeology as it is about bringing works into the world, the works of these female composers transcend the shadow or oblivion to which they were so readily consigned, taking their rightful place in the spotlight.
The impressionism of the music on the water continues with a visit to a private garden and a historic washhouse, in homage to the women washerwomen so often depicted by painters.
Concert scheduled as part of the 2026 Normandy Impressionist Festival
Programme :
Rita Strohl (1865 - 1941)
Musiques sur l’eau (1903)
pour piano solo
Jeux de Naïades - 10’
Louise Didier
La pluie - 3’
Marguerite Canal (1890 - 1978)
Chanson à l’aube - 3’
Les Gondoles sont là - 3’
Régina Patorni Casadesus (1886 - 1961)
Le lac - 4’
voix, violon, piano
Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967)
Still Falls the Rain - 9’
voix et quatuor à cordes
Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure (1879 - 1960)
Lamento (1933)- 7’48
voix, piano, quatuor à cordes
Freda SWAIN (1902 - 1985)
Piano Quartet
III. The Bay - 5’34
Maria BACH (1889 - 1967)
Wolga Quintet - mvt1/3 - 20’
pour quatuor à cordes et piano
Venue: Saint-Laurent Church, Quetteville - More details about the venue
Standard price: €20
Students and jobseekers: €10
Under-18s: €5
Musiques sur l’eau + Stile Antico PASS: €50 / €25 / €10
When: Thursday 23 July at 4pm
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
After the concert :
Guided tour: The impressionistic atmosphere of the music by the water continues with a visit to a private garden and a historic washhouse, paying tribute to the washerwomen so often depicted by painters.
Also to be seen on the same day
11:00 AM: UNEXPECTED - "FOLLOW THE VOICE"
Between the stalls, a voice rises… Follow it: it will lead you to the kiosk for a musical surprise with Marielou Jacquard and Célia Oneto Bensaid.
3:00 p.m.: SHORT WALK – “POP-UP OPERA”
Little sung wonders for enchanted little ears.
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM: GUIDED TOUR
The impressionism of the music on the water is extended by the visit to a private garden and a historic wash house, in homage to the washerwomen so often depicted by painters.
7 PM: CONCERT - "TRAVEL POSTCARDS"
All roads lead to Rome, Paris, Venice, Seville… with the vocal ensemble Stile Antico.
Welcome to Saint Lawrence Church
Welcome to Saint-Laurent Church Built starting in the 11th century, it is said, to Christianize the Vikings who had settled in the region, Saint-Laurent Church is a modest yet charming building that bears witness to the rich history of the Pays d'Auge. Its architecture reveals the layers of time: while its tall western façade features a 16th-century portal, its southern wall and narrow windows still whisper the secrets of its Romanesque origins, and its sturdy square tower, crowned with slate, has watched over the site since the Middle Ages. But Saint-Laurent Church is also a place of devotion and mystery. Inside, the statue of the patron saint recalls ancient local customs, when people would once come to stick pins into it to implore healing for skin ailments. Not far from there, the Saint-Laurent spring, which winds its way down to the Morelle Valley, adds a touch of natural magic to this preserved site, an ideal starting point for strollers and music lovers. Since 2017, the stud farm has been gradually modernized under the leadership of Guillaume and Marie Lamare to provide optimal working conditions for riders, whether they are year-round residents or simply train on the numerous riding arenas on a daily basis. The Haras de la Vallée also owes its reputation to its development and sales stable, which has produced numerous sport horses under the saddle of Guillaume Lamare. It was notably with Quartz du Sausse that he won the French Pro2 Championship title in Fontainebleau in 2012. Spanning 30 hectares, Haras de la Vallée also organizes show jumping competitions, offering a year-round schedule of events for young horses, professional riders, amateurs, clubs, and ponies. Renowned for the friendly atmosphere of its events and the quality of its two courses, Toubin & Clément, the stud farm welcomes some of the biggest names on the circuit each season.
find out more about the artist!
Célia Oneto Bensaid A sincere and dedicated artist, Célia Oneto Bensaid has carved out a career that reflects her unique personality, showcasing a distinctive repertoire. A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, Célia is a laureate of numerous international competitions (Piano Campus, Fondation Cziffra, Concours Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Pro Musicis, Prix HSBC at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, among others). She is a Yamaha Artist and receives support from the Banque Populaire Foundation and the Safran Foundation. She has performed with the Avignon-Provence Orchestra under the baton of Debora Waldman, the Brittany Orchestra under the direction of Aurélien Azan Zielinski or Anna Duczmal-Mróz, the Republican Guard Orchestra under the baton of François Boulanger, and the Toulon Opera Orchestra under the direction of Lucie Leguay. In recital and chamber music, she has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, L’Esprit du Piano in Bordeaux, La Folle Journée in Nantes, Salamanca Hall (Japan), Salle Bourgie (Montreal), and Wigmore Hall in London, alongside Renaud Capuçon, Elsa Dreisig, Marie-Laure Garnier, Héloïse Luzzati, Raphaëlle Moreau, and the Hanson Quartet. His extensive discography, comprising some ten recordings and having won numerous awards, showcases his favorite repertoires: “American Touches” featuring Bernstein and Gershwin, “Metamorphosis” featuring Glass, Pépin, and Ravel, “Songs of Hope” with soprano Marie-Laure Garnier, followed by an album dedicated to Marie Jaëll’s Pièces de Dante (Présence Compositrices label), and finally her latest solo CD, “Sparklight,” dedicated to concertos by Liszt and Jaëll. In chamber music, she has recorded with the Hanson Quartet (Brecords), Raphaëlle Moreau (Mirare), and Olivia Gay (Fuga Libera), and actively participates in projects by La Boîte à Pépites (Sohy, Strohl, Leleu…). A regular guest on France Musique’s “La Tribune Des Critiques,” her next recording project in 2026 will be a multi-part monograph dedicated to Philip Glass for the Mirare label.
Héloïse Luzzati Héloïse Luzzati is the founder and director of La Cité des Compositrices. After studying at the CNSMDP, she performed with orchestras such as Les Dissonances, the Paris National Opera Orchestra, and the National Orchestra of France. In 2020, she founded the video channel La Boîte à Pépites, for which she writes and directs her own documentaries on women composers. A few months later, she launched the Festival Un Temps pour Elles, followed by its digital counterpart, the La Boîte à Pépites Advent Calendar. La Boîte à Pépites became a record label in 2022, with a highly successful debut release dedicated to Charlotte Sohy. A sheet music publishing house, La Boîte à Pépites Publishing, was established in its wake in 2023. Now internationally recognized for her expertise on women composers, Héloïse collaborates with the most prestigious cultural institutions as part of the Cité des Compositrices’ initiatives: the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée d’Orsay, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Abbaye de Royaumont… A passionate chamber musician, Héloïse also continues her career as a cellist alongside performers such as Xavier Phillips, Célia Oneto Bensaid, David Kadouch, Raphaëlle Moreau, Manon Galy, Léa Hennino, and Elsa Dreisig… Recognized for her work promoting greater equality in musical programming, Héloïse Luzzati was named one of the “100 Women of Culture” in 2022 and was awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in 2023.
Léa Hennino Léa Hennino performs chamber music around the world alongside renowned artists such as the Modigliani Quartet, Eric Le Sage, Emmanuel Pahud, Adam Laloum, François Salque, David Kadouch, Marie and Guillaume Chilemme, Victor Julien-Lafferière, David Grimal, Edgar Moreau, Nicholas Angelich, Gauthier Capuçon, Sarah Nemtanu, Yan Levionnois, Alexis Kossenko … As a soloist, she performs in recitals, notably with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra and the Picardy Orchestra, and is regularly invited as principal violist in orchestras, notably with the ensemble Les Dissonances under the direction of David Grimal. Léa also collaborates with cellist Héloïse Luzzati on her project La Boîte à Pépites and her Festival Un Temps pour Elles, which aims to promote and disseminate the repertoire of female composers to foster greater equality in musical and artistic programming. She has thus participated in several new recordings of rediscovered female composers. An associate artist of the Ensemble I Giardini, she founded the Fidelio Quartet in 2023 with violinists Camille Fonteneau and Verena Chen, and cellist Maria Andréa Mendoza. Their collaboration celebrates works from the established repertoire as well as those by composers yet to be discovered. Eager to enrich their musical expression, the ensemble also regularly performs as a quintet with piano or vocal accompaniment. A graduate of the Paris Conservatory (CNSM), Léa went on to study with Nobuko Imai and Lawrence Power in Switzerland. She has won prizes at national and international competitions, received grants from several foundations, and been selected to participate in prestigious festival academies such as Krzyzowa Music for Europe (Poland), Kronberg “Cello Plus ” (Germany), Ravinia Steans Music Institute (USA), Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland), IMS Prussia Cove (England), Aurora Chamber Music (Sweden), and Encuentro de Santander (Spain). Léa plays a viola by Roland Belleguic, built in collaboration with Patrick Robin in 2025, and a bow by Thierry Doison, made in Lille.
Manon Galy Named “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique, Manon Galy studied at the Regional Conservatories of Toulouse and Paris before enrolling at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), then at the Munich Academy of Music under Julia Fischer, the Philippe Jaroussky Academy, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, where she is currently in residence with the Zeliha Trio. She is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including the 2021 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, where she won first prize as well as all the special prizes in the sonata category with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, and awards from the Banque Populaire, Safran, and Charles Oulmont foundations, as well as from AMOPA. Manon performs regularly as a soloist with various international orchestras and collaborates with renowned conductors such as Renaud Capuçon, Sacha Goetzel, Aziz Shokhakimov, Victorien Vanoosten, Gabor Takáks-Nagy, Bertrand De Billy, David Molard-Soriano, and Simone Menezes, among others. A chamber musician at heart, Manon Galy founded the Trio Zeliha in 2018 with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan and Maxime Quennesson. Their debut album, released in 2020 on the Mirare label, was critically acclaimed (5 Diapasons, 5 stars from Classica, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine…), as was their latest album, released in May 2024, which also received 5 stars from Classica, 4T from Télérama, and “Laure Mézan’s Choice” in Pianiste magazine. “Nuits Parisiennes,” The album, released in February 2023 on the Aparté label and the result of her collaboration with pianist Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, won a Diapason d’Or for Album of the Year, a 5-star rating from Classica, and a 4T rating from Télérama. Manon has joined the production company “Beau Soir Productions,” led by Renaud Capuçon, both as a soloist and as a member of the Zeliha Trio.
Fiona McGown Mezzo-soprano Fiona McGown began singing at the age of 12 as a member of the Paris Opera Children’s Choir. She is a graduate of the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre and the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance. In opera, she has performed the roles of Dorabella in Mozart’s *Cosi fan Tutte* and Cherubino in *The Marriage of Figaro*, Cybèle in Lully’s *Atys*, Diane and Oenone in Rameau’s *Hippolyte et Aricie*, and Orpheus in Gluck’s *Orpheus and Eurydice*. She can also be heard in Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. She performs on numerous opera stages in France (Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra-Comique, Radio France Auditorium, Royal Opera of Versailles…) and abroad (Victoria Hall in Geneva, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Bruges, Institut Français in London…). She has sung under the baton of Leonardo García Alarcón, Alexis Kossenko, Raphaël Pichon, and others, and has collaborated with directors Katie Mitchell (Trauernacht), Jean-Yves Ruf (La Finta Pazza), Jean Bellorini (Erismena), Dominique Pitoiset (Così fan tutte), and Romeo Castellucci (Mozart’s Requiem). Passionate about chamber music, Fiona regularly performs in a duo with pianist Célia Oneto Bensaid. As the dedicatee and premiere performer of several works by composer Camille Pépin, she sings on the critically acclaimed album *Chamber Music*: fff in *Télérama*, *Choc Classica*, and *Choix de France Musique*. During the 2024–2025 season, Fiona will perform at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra de Lille, and on tour throughout Europe (Geneva, Brussels, London, etc.).
Raphaëlle Moreau Nominated in the “Revelations” category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2020, she won the First Grand Prize at the 16th Postacchini Competition and is a laureate of the Nicati-de-Luze, l’Or du Rhin, and Banque Populaire foundations, as well as the Marcel Bleuestein-Blanchet Foundation for Musical Talent. After studying with Rodica Bogdanas and Suzanne Gessner, she was unanimously admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. In 2018, she earned a Master’s degree in Solo Performance in Renaud Capuçon’s class in Switzerland. Appointed concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester at the age of twenty-one, she has collaborated with Herbert Blomstedt, Jonathan Nott, Vladimir Jurowski, and Lorenzo Viotti, performing notably at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. Furthermore, as a soloist, she has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Metz National Orchestra, the Pau-Pays de Béarn Orchestra, and the Georgia Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of conductors including Myung-Whun Chung, Renaud Capuçon, Marzena Diakun, Bastien Still, and Simone Young. Raphaëlle performs a wide-ranging repertoire, from the great classics to forgotten female composers and contemporary composers. She has premiered works by Camille Pépin, Clara Olivares, Thierry Hersant, and Grégoire Rolland. She plays a Carlo Tononi violin from Bologna, generously loaned by Michael Guttman.
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