DOMAINE DE VILLARCEAUX
CHicagoAfroamericain Voices and musics
sunday, july 5th 2026 - 17:00
Marielou Jacquard, mezzo-soprano
Manon Galy, Raphaëlle Moreau, violin
Léa Hennino, viola
Héloïse Luzzati, cello
Célia Oneto Bensaid, Théo Fouchenneret, piano
Chicago is not merely a backdrop here, but a space of movement, learning, and engagement. Florence Price settled there in 1927; Margaret Bonds was born and raised there; Nora Holt studied, wrote, and organized there; Betty Jackson King received her training there. Through them, a shared sense of belonging and a shared imperative emerge: to invent, to create, to pass on.
For Florence Price, the piano is both a place of experimentation and synthesis, ranging from the miniature gesture to the scope of the quintet—a body of work whose breadth and diversity have been extensively highlighted by musicologist Michael Cooper, whose guidance informed this program. Nora Holt is known only through fragments, but her trajectory—as pianist, critic, and organizer—speaks to the importance of the networks she helped shape. With Betty Jackson King, the writing becomes more concise, yet just as rooted in a practice of transmission.
Another thread emerges around the voice. In the works of Dorothy Rudd Moore and Margaret Bonds, this dialogue between voice, strings, and piano takes on a dimension that is both intimate and collective. From spirituals to chamber music, these works are part of a history in which Chicago serves as one of the anchor points.
PROGRAM
CHICAGO
FLORENCE PRICE (1887 – 1953)
Coreopsis
for four-hands
Piano quintet n°2 in A minor
BETHY JACKSON KING (1928 – 1994)
Four Seasonal Sketches
n°2 Summer Interlude
n°4 Winter Holiday
for piano solo
NORA HOLT (1883 – 1974)
Nora’ dance op.25 n°1
DOROTHY RUDD MOORE (1940 – 2022)
From the Dark Tower
n°6 Dream Variation
poem by Langstone Hughes
n°7 For a poet
poem by Countee Cullen
Weary Blues
poem by Langstone Hughes
for voice, cello and piano
MARGARET BONDS (1913 – 1972)
Spiritual Suite
III. Troubled Water
arr. for cello and piano
Walk with me from Spiritual I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
for voice, cello and piano
African dance
poem by Langston Hughes
for two voices and piano
Didn’t It Rain
Deep River
ARTISTS
MARIELOU JACQUARD
Marielou Jacquard began her vocal training at a very young age at the Maîtrise de Radio France, before going on to study at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin), where she was taught by Martin Bruns and Christine Schäfer. She also studied with the soprano Julia Varady, with Wolfram Rieger for Lied and with Peter Berne for Bel Canto. She regularly collaborates with Vincent Dumestre’s Poème Harmonique, Sébastien Daucé’s Ensemble Correspondances, and Raphaël Pichon’s Pygmalion orchestra. Marielou is also deeply involved in contemporary music. Several works have been dedicated to her, notably Héloïse Werner’s Le Coeur Crucifié and Kaoli Ono’s Ceux qui nous attendaient. In recent years, she has performed at the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Chapelle Royale de Versailles, the Festival d’Ambronay and the Festival Musica Sacra (Quito, Ecuador). Her voice leads her quite naturally towards the art of the recital. She is also committed to highlighting the work of female composers, having collaborated on several occasions with the Cité des Compositrices and the Femmes artistes, Femmes d’action festival. Passionate about acting, she has taken on the roles of Sascha, Ivanov’s lover in Chekhov’s eponymous play, and Hitler in Heiner Müller’s Germania at the Berlin Academy of Arts.
RAPHAËLLE MOREAU
Nominated in the ‘Rising Stars’ category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2020, Raphaëlle Moreau won First 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 CNSMDP. She obtained a Master’s degree in Solo Performance in Renaud Capuçon’s class in Switzerland. Appointed concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, 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 Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. Furthermore, as a soloist, she has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bordeaux National Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Georgia Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Renaud Capuçon 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.
MANON GALY
Named “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique, Manon Galy trained at the Regional Conservatoires of Toulouse and Paris before going on to study at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), the Munich Hochschule under Julia Fischer, the Philippe Jaroussky Academy, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo. She is a prize-winner at numerous international competitions, including the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2021, 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 the AMOPA. Manon performs regularly as a soloist with various international orchestras, collaborating with leading conductors such as Renaud Capuçon, Sacha Goetzel, Aziz Shokhakimov, Bertrand De Billy and Simone Menezes, amongst 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 highly acclaimed by critics, as was their latest album, released in May 2024, which also received a 5-star rating from Classica, 4T from Télérama and was named “Laure Mézan’s Choice” in Pianiste magazine. Manon has joined, both as a soloist and with the Trio Zeliha, the production company “Beau Soir productions”, directed by Renaud Capuçon.
LÉA HENNINO
Léa Hennino performs chamber music around the world alongside renowned artists such as the Modigliani Quartet, Victor Julien-Lafferière, David Grimal and Edgar Moreau… She also performs in recitals, notably with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, and is regularly invited as principal viola in orchestras, notably with the ensemble Les Dissonances under the baton of David Grimal. Léa also collaborates with cellist Héloïse Luzzati for the La Boîte à Pépites label and the Un Temps pour Elles Festival, which aims to promote and disseminate the repertoire of female classical 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.
Léa plays a viola by Roland Belleguic, built in collaboration with Patrick Robin in 2025, and a bow by Thierry Doison, made in Lille.
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 Orchestre National de France. In 2020, she founded the video channel La Boîte à Pépites, for which she writes and directs her own documentaries on female 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 music publishing house, La Boîte à Pépites Publishing, was established in its wake in 2023. Now internationally recognised for her expertise on female 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… Recognised for her work in promoting greater equality in music 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.
CÉLIA ONETO BENSAID
A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, Célia Oneto Bensaid has won numerous international competitions (Piano Campus, Fondation Cziffra, the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition, Pro Musicis, the HSBC Prize at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, etc.). 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, and the Orchestre de Bretagne under the baton of Aurélien Azan Zielinski or Anna Duczmal-Mróz… 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, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Salamanca Hall (Japan), Salle Bourgie (Montréal) and Wigmore Hall in London, amongst others. Her discography, comprising some ten recordings and having won numerous awards, showcases her favourite repertoires. In chamber music, she has recorded alongside the Hanson Quartet (Brecords), Raphaëlle Moreau (Mirare) and Olivia Gay (Fuga Libera), and is actively involved in projects with La Boîte à Pépites (Sohy, Strohl, Leleu…) . A regular guest on France Musique’s La Tribune Des Critiques, her latest recording project, released in April 2026, is a multi-part monograph dedicated to Philip Glass for the Mirare label.
THÉO FOUCHENNERET
Having benefited from the guidance of renowned teachers – Jean-Claude Pennetier, Akiko Ebi, Denis Pascal, Itamar Golan, Mikhail Voskresensky, Pascal Devoyon… – Théo Fouchenneret won First Prize at the Gabriel Fauré International Competition in 2013, followed by First Prize at the Geneva International Competition in November 2018, before being named ‘Instrumental Soloist Revelation’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. That same year, he won First Prize as well as five special prizes at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. Acclaimed by major concert halls and international festivals, he has also performed with Victor Julien-Laferrière, Renaud Capuçon, François Salque, Lise Berthaud and Svetlin Roussev, amongst others. In March 2020, his first solo album was released on the Dolce Volta label, a recording dedicated to Beethoven’s great Waldstein and Hammerklavier sonatas. Théo Fouchenneret is the driving force behind the project to record the complete chamber music of Robert Schumann, which began in 2023, alongside his brother Pierre Fouchenneret. His new album dedicated to Gabriel Fauré’s Nocturnes was released on 6 September 2024 on La Dolce Volta. It has already been acclaimed by critics (Revue Pianiste, 5-star Diapason) and has been awarded a Choc Classica. Théo Fouchenneret is an artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and a laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation.
HAVE YOU HEARD OF FLORENCE PRICE?
Florence Price (1887 – 1953)
Negro Folksongs in counterpoint
No.1, Calvary. Adagio vigoroso
Quatuor Métamorphoses