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FIONA MCGOWN, mezzo-soprano
MANON GALY, violin
ANTOINE DE GROLÉE, piano

FIONA MCGOWN

Mezzo-soprano Fiona McGown began singing with the Paris Opera Children’s Choir. She trained with the Maîtrise de Radio France and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Paris VII. She is a graduate of the Leipzig School of Music and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Her operatic roles include Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte and Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Cybèle in Lully’s Atys, Diane and Oenone in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and Orphée in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. She can also be heard in Zemlinsky’s Le Nain, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and in a tribute concert to Leonard Bernstein with the Orchestre de Paris. She has sung under the baton of Leonardo García Alarcón, Alexis Kossenko and Raphaël Pichon, and collaborated with directors Katie Mitchell (Trauernacht), Jean-Yves Ruf (La Finta Pazza), Jean Bellorini (Erismena), Dominique Pitoiset (Cosi fan tutte) and Romeo Castellucci (Mozart Requiem). Recently, she took part in the creation of Innocence by Kaija Saariaho, directed by Simon Stone, and L’Apocalypse Arabe by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, directed by Pierre Audi as part of the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Passionate about chamber music, Fiona regularly performs in duo with pianist Célia Oneto Bensaid (Grand Prize winner of the Xth Gordes International Song and Lieder Competition). She is the author and creator of several pieces by composer Camille Pépin, and sings Chamber Music in a critically acclaimed CD: fff Télérama, Choc Classica, Choix de France Musique.

MANON GALY

ANTOINE DE GROLÉE 

Antoine de Grolée joined the CNSMD in Lyon in Pierre Pontier’s class. In 2005, he was awarded the Diplôme national d’études supérieures musicales with congratulations from the jury. He then worked with pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Boris Petrushansky at the Piano Academy in Imola (Italy). For several years now, he has been a guest at numerous festivals, giving recitals and chamber music concerts in France and abroad. A keen chamber musician, his partners have included Svetlin Roussev, Tedi Papavrami, Eléonore Darmon, Michel Dalberto, François Salque, Hildegarde Fesneau, David Guerrier, Ayako Tanaka, Julie Sévilla-Fraysse, Pierre Fouchenneret, Laurent Cabasso and Léo Marillier, Irène Duval, Alexis Galpérine, Amaury Coeytaux, Lise Berthaud, Florent Charpentier, Hélène Clément, Virgil Boutellis, Guillaume Chilemme, Xavier Gagnepain, Julien Beaudiment, Elsa Grether, Saténik Khourdoian, the Joachim, Elysée, Varèse, Akilone and Girard quartets… Attracted to accompanying singers from an early age, he has given recitals with sopranos Anaïs Constans, Shigeko Hata and Hannah Medlam. He gives regular concerts with the choirs Temperamens Variations and A Canto aperto. In August 2013, he was the pianist for Teresa Berganza’s master-class in Saintes.

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