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A sincere and committed artist, Célia Oneto Bensaid has forged a career in her own image, showcasing a unique 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, HSBC Prize at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, etc.). She is a Yamaha artist and receives support from the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Fondation Safran. She performs with the Avignon-Provence Orchestra under the direction of Debora Waldman, the Brittany Orchestra under the direction of Aurélien Azan Zielinski or Anna Duczmal-Mróz, the French Republican Guard under the baton of François Boulanger, and the Toulon Opera under the direction of Lucie Leguay. In recital and chamber music, he 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. Her extensive and award-winning discography, comprising around ten recordings, showcases her preferred repertoire: “American Touches” featuring Bernstein and Gershwin, “Metamorphosis” with 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,” featuring concertos by Liszt and Jaëll. In chamber music, she has recorded with the Hanson Quartet (Brecords), Raphaëlle Moreau (Mirare), Olivia Gay (Fuga Libera), and actively participates in projects with La Boîte à Pépites (Sohy, Strohl, Leleu, etc.). A regular guest at the La Tribune Des Critiques panel on France Musique, her next discographic project in 2026 will be a multi-part monograph dedicated to Philip Glass for the Mirare label.