ANTOINE MORINIÈRE

Always in search for a new repertoire, Antoine Morinière is a sought-after guitarist, performing worldwide in solo recitals, chamber music, and concertos. He has appeared in major venues such as Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonie de Bruges, Wigmore Hall and King’s Place in London, Bozar in Brussels, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Casa de Musica in Portugal, Amman Roman Theater in Jordan, and has performed in festivals including Bachfest Leipzig, Paris International Guitar Festival, London Guitar Festival, Fez Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, Radio France Festival, Sharjah Light Festival in UAE, among others.

Winner of the First Prize at the International Sevilla Guitar Competition in 2015, Antoine Morinière has also won numerous other international guitar competitions, including First Prizes at the Wien Guitar Competition, the Ville d’Antony Guitar Competition in France, the Santa Cecilia International Competition, the Tivat Guitar Competition, the International Guitar Competition Olzstyn in Poland, and the Leopold Bella Competition in Paris.

In chamber music, Antoine Morinière has collaborated with such renowned artists as Léo Brouwer, Fatma Saïd, Philippe Bernold, Raphaël Feuillatre, Gabriel Bianco, to name but a few. For the last fifteen years, Antoine has been collaborating extensively in a guitar duo with Thibaut Garcia, on a Baroque-focused repertoire spanning from Bach and Scarlatti to Couperin and Rameau. More recently, the two guitarists are touring with a new project of a transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, on new guitars made by Hugo Cuvillier. The album was recorded for the Warner company in 2025.

Antoine Morinière is equally enthusiastic about contemporary music, and he has collaborated with several composers including Raphaël Sévère, Jean Frédéric Neuburger, and the Japanese composer Rikako Watanabe. Always looking for new repertoire, Antoine has also performed with world music artists such as Sami Yusuf, Ballaké Cissoko, Nabyla Man, Guo Gan and José Manuel León, at venues and festivals including the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, the Tanweer Festival in the UAE, and Yenikapı in Istanbul, where he performed before an audience of 70,000.