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36 CHAUSSON, RAVEL ∙ TRIOS FOR PIANO, VIOLIN AND CELLO Laure-Hélène Michel Born in Romans, France in 1992, the cellist Laure-Hélène Michel is a chamber musician at heart, performing in festivals and leading concert halls in many countries. She has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions (Vatelot- Rampal in Paris, Maurice Gendron in Fontainebleau, Valsesia Musica in Italy, Mainardi in Salzburg, Barletta in Italy, among others) and is also a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire. At the age of twenty, she graduated from Yvan Chiffoleau’s class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. She continued her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Giovanni Gnocchi, then at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne with François Salque. She has also benefited from the guidance of Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Arto Noras, Jans Peter Maintz and Julius Berger, as well as the Trio Wanderer, the Talich Quartet and such eminent teachers as Itamar Golan, Yves Henry, Claire Désert, Yovan Markovitch, Olivier Charlier, Emmanuel Strosser and Christian Ivaldi. In 2020 she joined the Promotion Beethoven of the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky, in the class of Christian-Pierre La Marca. Strongly committed to supporting the development of classical music in her region, Laure-Hélène is the artistic ambassador of the Musifolia Festival in Romans, in the Drôme des Collines area. She is passionate about all forms of art, and also practises drawing and photography regularly. She joined the Trio Metral in June 2021.