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 from the Toulouse CRR to the Paris CRRthen from the CNSMD in Paris to Julia Fischer’s Hochschule in Munich, 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 Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon 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 2022-2023Manon 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 or 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…
She has collaborated with Renaud Capuçon, Sacha Goetzel, Aziz Shokhakimov, Victorien Vanoosten, Gabor Takáks-Nagy, Bertrand De Billy, David Molard-Soriano, Simone Menezes and others. 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 Chaise-Dieu Festival, the Al-Bustan Festival (Lebanon), the Folle Journée de Nantes and Tokyo (Japan)….
And has performed in such legendary legendary venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Vienna Konzerthaus, La Seine Musicale, the Vilnius Philharmonic, the RHOM Theatre Kyoto among others.
During these concerts, Manon had the chance to share the stage with many artists such as 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 album, released in 2020 on Mirare label is acclaimed by the critics (5 diapason, 5 stars from Classica, Editor’s choice from Gramophone magazine…) as is their latest disc, released in May 2024, also awarded 5 Classica stars, 4T Télérama and “Choix de Laure Mézan” in Pianiste magazine. “Nuits Parisiennes”, released in February 2023 on the Aparté label. a duo with pianist Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, won 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, headed by Renaud Capuçon.
