Guitar

Benoît Albert

As a soloist, chamber musician and composer, French guitarist Benoît Albert is one of a kind. When very young, he was inspired by popular music as well as progressive rock and classical music. Around the age of 14, he decided to study classical guitar, studies which led him from his native Charente to the Conservatoire de Bordeaux then to the CNSMD de Paris, where he obtained the Diplôme de Formation Supérieur for guitar and chamber music. He has studied with Olivier Chassain, Carel Harms, Pierre Laurent Aimard, Frédéric Durieux, Laszlo Adadi and Christophe Coin among others. As a performer, his productions involve contemporary dance (Laurène Albert and Pierre-Michaël Faure), painting / engraving (Paul Storey and Pierre Cambon), chamber music (Suonatori, Les Frères Méduses, la Cie des Arts, Duo Laborde-Albert, Duo Szymanski-Albert, Les Sacqueboutiers) and more recently a work on silent film music (Tod Browning and Georges Méliès).

In 2012, in collaboration with guitarist Randall Avers, he developed a programme for young audiences regarding Georges Méliès’ short films. This commission at the behest of the Norwegian government (Les Concert du Roi) will be performed 80 times in Norway, then in France. He has single-handedly developed a programme featuring three original instruments covering 200 years of music and guitar making history: the Guitar Triptych. This concept is the result of a collaboration with the luthier, restorer of antique instruments Erik Pierre Hofmann. He has performed in Europe, Venezuela, the United States and Malaysia. His compositions and records are published by Les Productions d’Oz in Canada. To date, he has recorded ten albums, five of which are entirely dedicated to his music. As a composer, his appetite for discovery drives him to write for various instruments and formations without forgetting the works of electronic music. Its musical language presents a very wide rhythmic spectrum, reflecting popular influences from Eastern Europe and South America, not to mention French Impressionist music.

Since September 2014, he has been a guitar teacher at the CRR de Toulouse and works at the isdaT.

Rémi Jousselme

Versatile musician, Rémi Jousselme is involved in a vast field of artistic projects. During his career, he shared the stage with a large number of other instrumentalists or groups (orchestra, quartet, vocal ensemble…), as well as with popular or classical singers, dancers and actors.

Born in Marseille in 1977, Rémi Jousselme won first place in several international competitions in France and abroad, including the prestigious “Printemps de la Guitare” in Belgium, which awarded a French guitarist for the first and only time. For the occasion, he recorded an album ranging from the romantic repertoire to contemporary creations. His second work, Brasiliana, a panorama of Brazilian music ranging from popular to avant-garde, was released in 2005 by Altaïs Music, a live DVD in Seoul was released in 2009, and his latest album Exils, dedicated to composers Toru Takemitsu and Atanas Ourkouzounov, was released in November 2016 on the Spanish label Contrastes Records as a tribute to Toru Takemitsu on the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of his death.

Very active in the field of music today, he has collaborated with musicians and renowned ensembles on the current music scene (Musicatreize, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Gauthier Capuçon, Quatuor Béla…) and played in international festivals in Paris, Seville , San-José (Costa-Rica), Daegun, Daejon (South Korea), Avignon “In” (France), Musica à Strasbourg (France), Folle Journée de Tokyo (Japan), at the International House of Music in Moscow, the Novel Hall in Taipei, Tiara Koto Hall in Tokyo… and worked together with the great composers Zad Moultaka, Bruno Mantovani, Philippe Leroux, Felix Ibarrondo and Jean-Pierre Drouet. He is also a member of the Musica Nigella ensemble and the Collectif Quest.

Rémi Jousselme is a professor at the Conservatory of Tours and teaches didactics at the Pôle Supérieur de Lille (ESMD). He performs as a soloist or chamber musician in Europe, Russia, Asia, playing Vicente Carrillo guitar and Savarez strings.

Thibaut Garcia

First prize winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (USA) competition in 2015, BBC New Generation Artist (2017-2019), “Révélation Instrumentale” of the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2019, and winner of Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival (2023), Thibaut Garcia has gradually established himself as one of the most gifted guitarists of his generation.
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The Franco-Spanish guitarist was born in 1994 in Toulouse where he obtained his guitar prize in the class of Paul Ferret, before continuing his training at the CNSMD of Paris in the class of Olivier Chassain, while benefiting from the advice of Judicaël Perroy. Thibaut Garcia now plays in the most important concert halls and festivals throughout the world: Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Salle Bourgie in Montreal, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Grands Interprètes in Toulouse, Festival Musiq’3 in Brussels, Berlin Philharmonie, Teatros del Canal, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Bachfest Leipzig Auditorium de Bordeaux, Seine Musicale, Grand Théâtre de Provence…
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Since his concerto debuts with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in 2016, Thibaut Garcia returned in 2023 for the creation of El Bihr by Benjamin Attahir. He has also collaborated with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the BBC orchestras, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Münchner Symphoniker, the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Saint Etienne, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Orchestre National de Lyon… Highlights of the 2024-2025 season, are concertos with the Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and returns to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (as the “WEMAG Soloist” prizewinner), the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Palau de Musica Barcelona, and also debuts at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. He is curating “Guitarmania” at the Philharmonie de Paris in April, where he showcases his instrument and its ambassadors for a week.
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In chamber music, Thibaut Garcia also performs with Edgar Moreau, Raphaël Sévère, Elsa Dreisig, Marianne Crebassa, Lucienne Renaudin-Vary, Anastasia Kobekina, the Quatuor Arod… He also forms duets with Philippe Jaroussky (À sa guitare), Félicien Brut (Vol de Nuit), and Antoine Morinière (Goldberg Variations). Thibaut Garcia has been a Warner Classics/Erato artist since 2016. After Leyendas in 2016, Bach Inspirations in 2018, Aranjuez in 2020 (Choc de Classica, Diapason d’Or, Gramphone Editor’s Choice), his album À sa guitare in duet with Philippe Jarrousky was released in autumn 2021. In autumn 2023 is released his album El Bohemio, devoted to the composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

Guitar class pedagogy

Course + option

1. Courses taught by our teachers: Rémi Jousselme and Benoît Albert.
2. Thibaut Garcia: masterclass with several presentations during the year.
3. A specialist teacher in relation to a specific option:

• world music
• contemporary creation
• romantic guitar
• early music
• improvisation
• music to image
• electroacoustic music
• a particular period, style or composer from the classical repertoire

This choice of option can be made in the first year if the student has already decided on his or her artistic orientation, or in the 2^nd year if the student needs a year of orientation.

Pre-professional support

Each student is required to produce an audio or video mock-up and a dossier of their final-year project, which will then be their first project to be proposed to professionals on graduation.

Each student will be in charge of organizing a concert from A to Z, excluding isdaT / concert hall partnerships.