Biography

ALéa Hennino performs chamber music all over the world with renowned artists such as the Quatuor Modigliani, Christophe Coin, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Eric Le Sage, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Quatuor Kelemen, Nicolas Alstaedt, Nicolas Dautricourt, Adam Laloum, Francois Salque, David Kadoush, Pierre Fouchenneret, Marie et Guillaume Chilemme, Victor Julien-Lafferière, David Grimal, Edgar Moreau, Alina Pogotskina, Alena Baeva, Boris Brovtsyn, Daishin Kashimoto, Guy Braunstein, Nicholas Angelich, Gauthier Capuçon, Sarah Nemtanu, Yan Levionnois, Nelson Goerner, Marc Coppey, Anne Queffelec, Itamar Golan, Denis Pascal, Augustin Dumay, Alexis Kossenko, Charlotte Spruit, Daniel Sepec, Nathan Braude…

 

In 2014, she took part in a tour of Mozart’s complete string quintets at the invitation of Renaud Capucon, alongside Gérard Caussé and Clemens Hagen, in Europe’s finest concert halls…

As a soloist, she appears in recital, performing Martinü’s Concerto-Rhapsody in the Czech Republic and Mozart’s symphonie concertante with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra. She was also guest principal viola in Strauss’s Don Quichotte with the Orchestre de Picardie, and is a regular guest solo viola with orchestras such as Les Dissonances, conducted by David Grimal.

Léa collaborates regularly with cellist Héloïse Luzzati on her project La boite à pépites and her Festival Un temps pour elles, whose ambition is to promote and disseminate the repertoire of women composers, with a view to greater equality in musical and artistic programming.

Associate artist of the Ensemble I Giardini, they recorded together the album Nuits au côté Véronique Gens (diapason d’or, choc classica, clé de resmusica, choix de france musique) and an album dedicated to the music of Caroline Shaw (2022). Léa is also involved in the Camille Pépin Chamber Music disc (Choc Classica 2019, Choix de France Musique, FFF Télérama) and various recordings.

In 2022, with cellist Yan Levionnois, she produced a project based on Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Don Quixote, in the form of a musical tale with actor Elliot Jenicot and illustrated with drawings by Cécile Pruvot. The show has been performed at the Festival de Saint-Céré, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Festival de Saint-Denis and will be revived in April 2025 at the Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence (La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille).

Léa has been artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac since 2022. This invaluable support enables her to benefit from rehearsal rooms in one of the most sumptuous private mansions in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The foundation also provides access to an instrumental collection and the organization of concerts as part of the musical season.

Since 2023, Léa has also been a member of the Fidelio String Quartet with violinists Camille Fonteneau, Marie-Astrid Hulot and cellist Maria Andréa Mendoza. Their collaboration celebrates works from the repertoire as well as from composers yet to be discovered. Keen to enrich their playing, the ensemble also regularly forms quintets with piano or vocals.

A graduate of the CNSM in Paris, Léa went on to perfect her skills with Nobuko Imai and Lawrence Power in Switzerland. She won prizes at national and international competitions, became a laureate of several Foundations and was selected to take part in prestigious Festival Academies such as Krzyzowa Music for Europe (Poland), Kronberg “Cello Plus” (Germany), Ravinia Steans Music Institut (USA), Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland), IMS Prussia Cove (England), Aurora Chamber Music (Sweden), Encuentro de Santander (Spain).

Léa plays a 2013 Patrick Robin viola, generously loaned by Renaud Capuçon, and a Thierry Doison bow made in Lille.


As a soloist, she appears in recital, performing Martinü’s Concerto-Rhapsody in the Czech Republic and Mozart’s symphonie concertante with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra. She was also guest principal viola in Strauss’s Don Quichotte with the Orchestre de Picardie, and is a regular guest solo viola with orchestras such as Les Dissonances, conducted by David Grimal.

Léa collaborates regularly with cellist Héloïse Luzzati on her project La boite à pépites and her Festival Un temps pour elles, whose ambition is to promote and disseminate the repertoire of women composers, with a view to greater equality in musical and artistic programming.

Associate artist of the Ensemble I Giardini, they recorded together the album Nuits au côté Véronique Gens (diapason d’or, choc classica, clé de resmusica, choix de france musique) and an album dedicated to the music of Caroline Shaw (2022). Léa is also involved in the Camille Pépin Chamber Music disc (Choc Classica 2019, Choix de France Musique, FFF Télérama) and various recordings.

In 2022, with cellist Yan Levionnois, she produced a project based on Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Don Quixote, in the form of a musical tale with actor Elliot Jenicot and illustrated with drawings by Cécile Pruvot. The show has been performed at the Festival de Saint-Céré, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Festival de Saint-Denis and will be revived in April 2025 at the Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence (La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille).

Léa has been artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac since 2022. This invaluable support enables her to benefit from rehearsal rooms in one of the most sumptuous private mansions in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The foundation also provides access to an instrumental collection and the organization of concerts as part of the musical season.

Since 2023, Léa has also been a member of the Fidelio String Quartet with violinists Camille Fonteneau, Marie-Astrid Hulot and cellist Maria Andréa Mendoza. Their collaboration celebrates works from the repertoire as well as from composers yet to be discovered. Keen to enrich their playing, the ensemble also regularly forms quintets with piano or vocals.

A graduate of the CNSM in Paris, Léa went on to perfect her skills with Nobuko Imai and Lawrence Power in Switzerland. She won prizes at national and international competitions, became a laureate of several Foundations and was selected to take part in prestigious Festival Academies such as Krzyzowa Music for Europe (Poland), Kronberg “Cello Plus” (Germany), Ravinia Steans Music Institut (USA), Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland), IMS Prussia Cove (England), Aurora Chamber Music (Sweden), Encuentro de Santander (Spain).

Léa plays a 2013 Patrick Robin viola, generously loaned by Renaud Capuçon, and a Thierry Doison bow made in Lille.


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Centenary G. Fauré

IGiardini · TCE

Rita Strohl

Album Release

Calendar

16 January | Paris (FR)

Dvorak Quintet · Akilone Quartet

Les Concerts de Poche · String Trio

31 Jan - 2 February | Nantes (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Folle Journée de Nantes

24 February | Paris (FR)

Elles Women Composers · National Library of France

4 March | Rouen (FR)

I Giardini · Nuits with Véronique Gens

8 March | Montmorency (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Rotary Eaubonne Val de Grace

14 March | Maubeuge (FR)

Héméra Ensemble · Harpe en Avesnois

16 April | Marseille (FR)

Don Quixote · Festival de Pâques d'Aix en Provence

15 May | Belle-Isle-de-Châteauroux (FR)

Duet with Fanny Vicens · Les Concerts de Poche

4 June | Lille (FR)

I Giardini · Three Women

15 June | Dax (FR)

Smoking Josephine · Festival des Abbayes

21 June | Tarbes (FR)

Tarbes Instrumental Ensemble · Mozart Requiem

26 June | Saint-Germain-en-Laye (FR)

Les Étoiles du Classique

28 June | Fougères (FR)

I Giardini · Nuits with Véronique Gens

3-July | Chambord (FR)

Duet with Fanny Vicens · Festival de Chambord

5-6 July | Villarceau (FR)

Elles Women Composers · Festival Un Temps pour Elles

20 July | Les Salles (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Concerts de Vollore

21-22 July | Chaillol (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Festival de Chaillol

28-31 July | Luchon (FR)

Beethoven Sextuor · Musical de Luchon

2-4 August | Saint-Céré (FR)

Elles Women Composers · Festival de Saint-Céré

6-7 August | Saint-Céré (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Festival de Saint-Céré

15 August | Ainay-le-vieil (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Rencontres musicales d'Ainay-le-Vieil

16 August | Saint-Bertrand de Comminges (FR)

Smoking Josephine · Festival du Comminges

17 August | Paris (FR)

Smoking Josephine · Classique au Vert

20-22 August | Lacanau (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Musical'Ocean

24-25 August | Wissembourg (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Festival International de Wissembourg

27 August | Caunes-Minervois (FR)

Hermès Quartet & Friends · Festival de Caunes-Minervois

28 August | Royan (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Jeudi Musicaux

11-13 September | Lagrasse (FR)

Adam Laloum & Friends · Festival de Lagrasse

4 October | Beaulieu les loches (FR)

Fidelio Quartet · Festival Sonates d'Automne

31 October | Paris (FR)

Clémence de Forceville & Fidelio Quartet · Salle Cortot

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Discography

Retrospective

Berlin Boulez Saal - 2024
Alexis Kossenko, Charlotte Spruit, Daniel Sepec, Christophe Coin, Michael Chanu
Katok Festival - 2024
Paul Serri, Marie Chilemme, Gabriel Le Madagure, Justine Métral
LacMus Festival - 2024
IGiardini & Isabelle Druet
Wissembourg Festival - 2024
Fidelio Quartet & Julien Gernay
Les Concerts de Poche - 2024
Duet with Fanny Vicens
France Musique Generation - 2024
Album Release on Radio (Jeanne Leleu)
Saint-Denis Festival - 2024
Don Quichotte - Strauss with Elliot Jenicot, Cécile Pruvot, Shuichi Okada, Manon Galy, Yann Dubost, Guillaume Bellom, Rodolphe Théry and Ouranos Ensemble
French National Library - 2024
Jeanne Leleu and La Fronde
Max Festival - 2023
Irina Lankova, Joe christophe, Daniel Kogan, Elina Bushka, David Cohen
Verbier Festival - 2023
I giardini and Véronique Gens
Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus - 2023
Nicolas Altstaedt, Kelemen Quartet
Festival Anay-Le-Viel 2023
Trio with Annaëlle Tourret and Ludivine Moreau
Aix en Provence - 2023
Carte Blanche Génération @Aix
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées - 2023
Don Quichotte by Strauss
Entrecasteaux Festival - 2022
Mozart Duo with Elise Bertrand
Tourcoing - 2022
Alexis Kossenko, Daniel Sepec, Gilone Gaubert, Gautier Blondel, Léa Hennino, Christophe Coin
Les Concerts de Poche - 2022
Jonathan Fournel, Augustin Dumay, Marc Coppey, Léa Hennino
Radio France - 2021
Jean-Giuhen Queyras, Eva zavaro, Léa Hennino
Paris Sinfonietta - 2020
Nathan Mierdl, Mathilde Lauridon, Julie Sevilla-Fraysse, Guillaume Sigier
Dijon Auditorium - 2020
Les Dissonances with Shuichi Okada, Eva Zavaro, Clément Batrel, Yann Dubost, Yan Levionnois & Adrien Bellom
Marmottan Museum - 2020
with alexandra Luiceanu
Orchestre de Picardie - 2019
Don Quichotte with Sébastien Hurtaud and Arie Van Beek
Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse - 2018
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with Gilles Colliard
Munich - 2018
Mathilde Calderini, Sarah Verrue, Léa Hennino
London - 2018
Lawrence Power, Léa Hennino, Ting-Ru Lai, Timothy Ridout
Deauville - 2017
Amaury Coeteaux, Perceval Gilles, Léa Hennino, Victor Julien-Laferrière
Paris - 2017
Manuel Vioque Jude, Ilyia Gringolts, Léa Hennino, Barnabas Kelemen, Marc Coppey, Alexander Chaushian
Czech Republic - 2016
Léa Hennino, Orchestre symphonique de Hradec Kralove
Aix en Provence - 2015
Raphaëlle Moreau, Nelson Goerner, Bruno Philippe
Aix en Provence - 2014
Renaud Capucon, Alina Ibragimoba, Gérard Caussé, Léa Hennino, Clemens Hagen
Stavenger Konzerthaus - 2014
Anton Sorokov, Stephan Kropfitsch, Amelia Stalheim, Ingerin Dahl
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