Celia Oneto Bensaid
Member of the jury, 2025
After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with five prizes and top honours, she went on to study at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste. At the same time, she benefited from the guidance of Claire Désert, Brigitte Engerer, Maria João Pires, Jean-Claude Pennetier and Rena Shereshevskaya, all of whom were particularly inspiring and enriching. Today, she performs on the world's greatest stages, choosing her repertoire with care: American music (including her own transcriptions), French music, contemporary music and music by female composers all feature prominently in her programmes; she has premiered numerous works by Kaija Saariaho, Diana Syrse, Camille Pépin and Fabien Waksman. She now teaches at the Conservatoire du 18ème arrondissement in Paris, and is a regular guest on France Musique's La Tribune Des Critiques. For several years now, the press has been following the development of this committed pianist with her golden fingers and impeccable technique (LexNews), whose sensitivity is matched only by her mastery (Télérama) and who, according to Les Echos, is the embodiment of the free electron of the next generation of French pianists.