GEF2025 Concert | Pax Musica
The first evening of the Global Ethics Forum 2025 (8 October) will conclude with a cultural moment open to all participants: a concert given by Pax Musica. Pax Musica will offer a dialogue between classical music and Armenian music, in an intercultural programme that will highlight the musical and cultural crossovers and exchanges born from the encounter.
About Pax Musica
Pax Musica is a French non-political and non-denominational NGO founded in 2024 by Hélène Daccord to enable talented musicians who have found refuge in France to pursue their careers through mentoring relationships with renowned artists.
The first class of 11 laureates was selected from 73 candidates from 24 countries. During the 2024-2025 academic year, they will perform in concerts and musical residencies, meet young audiences, and receive personalised support from a mentor.
In France and internationally, the laureates share the stage with their mentors, creating moments of encounter and emotion that transcend borders. Each concert is an opportunity to promote Pax Musica's message: music connects people and builds bridges between cultures.
Meet the musicians
Julie Sévilla Fraysse is an acclaimed French cellist celebrated for her elegance, versatility, and blend of tradition and modernity. Trained at top institutions and a former performer with the Paris Opera and Republican Guard Orchestra, she now shines as a soloist and collaborator with renowned artists worldwide. Mentor to a Pax Musica laureate from Ukraine, and Artistic Director of CoCreate Humanity, she brings music’s humanistic power to hospitals, vulnerable communities, and crisis zones, championing it as a universal language of resilience.
Artyom Minasyan, an Armenian duduk virtuoso trained at the Yerevan Conservatory, is a passionate cultural ambassador blending ancient tradition with modern creativity across international stages. Now based in France, he integrates the soulful sounds of this UNESCO-listed instrument into diverse genres from film to jazz. As a mentor for Pax Musica, he passes on not only his musical mastery but also a living heritage, embodying the project’s mission to transform the stories of exile into harmonies of hope and beauty.
Kurdish singer Güler Yildiz and Armenian musician Kariné Arsenyan bring together the musical traditions of the Caucasus, Kurdistan, and Eurasia, united by a shared passion for preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. After overcoming barriers to expression in Turkey, Güler has built a career in France performing diverse vocal traditions and dreams of forming a traditional orchestra. Kariné, trained at the Armenian National Conservatory and long-time member of Moscow’s Guslyari orchestra, draws on her dual Armenian-Russian background to enrich cross-cultural projects.
Now both based in France, Güler and Kariné are supported by PAX MUSICA and mentored by renowned duduk player Artyom Minasyan, developing projects that weave together oral traditions, cultural dialogue, and artistic collaboration.
Ukrainian violinist Oleksandr Dmytriev, trained at the Odessa National Academy of Music and former member of the Odessa Philharmonic, relocated to France in 2022 due to the war. Since then, he has performed with leading orchestras, organised charity concerts with pianist Sofiia Sazonova, and pursued his passion for baroque and chamber music while championing Ukrainian culture. With the mentorship and support of PAX MUSICA and cellist Julie Sevilla-Fraysse, he is developing new projects that blend artistic excellence with memory, resilience, and solidarity.
About Pax Musica's founder
Hélène Daccord is the founder of Pax Musica, a violinist and researcher, and a graduate of ESSEC, ENS, and Princeton University. A specialist in international relations and refugee integration policies, she explores the political uses of music in her book Quand la musique fait l’histoire (Passés Composés, 2023). In 2024, she founded Pax Musica, an NGO that supports musicians who have found refuge in France through an artistic mentorship program alongside renowned artists.
