Fourth concert
of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon
at Fine Arts Paris
Saturday 19 September 2026
8pm
at the Grand Palais
For the fourth year running, Fine Arts Paris is welcoming artists from the Fondation Gautier Capuçon to give a concert during the fair.
It will take place on Saturday 19 September 2026 at 8pm in the Nef of the Grand Palais, with a duo performance by Mirabelle Kajenjeri (piano) and Elias Moncado (violin).
!A special ticket is available for this occasion:
- Combined ticket — Fair entry + concert seat: €60
Ticket available to buy on site or online.
A voucher is given at the entrance, allowing access to the concert once the visit has been completed.
The visit must take place on the day of the concert, Saturday 19 September. - Concert-only ticket: €30
Ticket reserved for holders of a fair invitation or a VIP card.
Mirabelle Kajenjeri
Piano
French pianist born in 1998 to Burundian and Ukrainian parents, Mirabelle Kajenjeri has had the opportunity to highlight this mixed heritage as a guest speaker at TEDx Roubaix, an event with an international reach.
Mirabelle Kajenjeri graduated from the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover, studying with Ewa Kupiec, as well as from the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels in the class of Mikhail Faerman. Her teachers have included Lorenzo Gatto, Olga Zolotareva, Ning Kam and Elizabeth Degrenand.
Her talent has been recognised in numerous international piano competitions: First Prize at the Santa Cecilia Competition in Porto (2021), Second Prize at the Kissinger Klavier Olymp (2023), and a semi-finalist at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition. She has received scholarships from the Gautier Capuçon, Safran, Wilhelm Kempff and Lieven Piano foundations in Vienna.
Mirabelle Kajenjeri © Sofija-Palurovic
Mirabelle Kajenjeri performs regularly across Europe, appearing at festivals such as Flagey Piano Days, Lille Piano Festival, Piano Campus, the Festivals of Wallonia and the Kissinger Sommer. She also collaborates with various orchestras, including the Cordes 21 Orchestra, the Orchestre de Picardie, the Orchestra Filarmonica Pugliese, the Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt and the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa.
Currently completing postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Austria), under Anna Malikova, she will be an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium from the 2024/2025 season. In September 2022, her first album, Étincelles, was released in collaboration with the KNS Classical label.
Elias Moncado
Violin
The youngest winner of the First Grand Prize — as well as ten special prizes — at the 2019 Karol Lipiński International Violin Competition in Poland, the German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist Elias David Moncado is, according to Anne-Sophie Mutter, “one of the greatest talents of his generation”.
Elias David Moncado has won numerous international competitions, including First Prize at the Valsesia Musica Competition and the Vladimir Spivakov Competition in 2021, as well as the prize for youngest laureate at the Sendai Violin Competition in 2019. He is also a laureate of the Louis Spohr (Weimar), Postacchini (Fermo) and Orchestre du Maroc competitions. In 2023, he toured as soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto under the direction of Sascha Goetzel and Nayden Todorov in Bulgaria, Austria and Germany.
Mirabelle Kajenjeri © Sofija-Palurovic
Elias David Moncado has performed as soloist with many orchestras, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Freiburger Philharmoniker and the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared with conductors such as Vladimir Spivakov, Ken Takaseki, Fabrice Bollon, Nicolás Pasquet, Heiko Mathias Förster and Ryusuke Numajiri. He has also been broadcast on RBB Berlin, WDR Köln, France Musique, France 3, SWR2 and BR Klassik.
His first CD, acclaimed by critics, was released in 2022 on the Avi-Music label, featuring works by Hindemith, Poulenc and Bartók. Since autumn 2023, Elias David Moncado has been studying at the Kronberg Academy with Professor Mihaela Martin. He plays a violin by Giambattista Rogeri (Brescia, c. 1700) as well as a G.B. Guadagnini (Turin, c. 1771).
The Fondation Gautier Capuçon
The mission of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon is to support and accompany outstanding young musicians as they take their first steps in their careers.
Its work is structured around three main areas:
- awarding study grants to enable them to continue their training and further their studies in France or abroad;
- programming concerts and placing young musicians as opening acts for performances by established artists;
- recording and producing an album.
