Jérémy Jouve, 2003 winner of the First Prize of the International Guitar Competition organized by the Guitar Foundation of America, enjoys an international concert career, playing in some of the world’s most important festivals. Born in 1979, he began studying the guitar in Chambéry, France, and obtained at the early age of thirteen the Premier Prix of the Grenoble Conservatoire National de Région, enabling him to be admitted to the studio of Eric Franceries, who was to become extremely important to Jouve’s early musical development. Moving to Paris when he was eighteen, he studied with Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale de Musique/Alfred Cortot and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSMDP), where he was also a student of Roland Dyens.
After graduating with degrees in guitar and chamber music, he decided to broaden his musical horizons, and elected to join an advanced training course under László Hadady, oboe soloist of the Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain. Already an awardwinner at several international competitions, in 2002 he won First Prize at the Tychy International Guitar Competition (Poland), followed by First Prize at the prestigious International Guitar competition organized in Mexico during November 2003 by the Guitar Foundation of America. Following this success, he embarked upon a forty-recital tour of the United States, Canada and Mexico during the 2004-2005 season.
Jérémy Jouve’s career has taken him to some of the most important stages and festivals of the musical world, including Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, Germany’s Iserlhon Guitar Symposium, the French National Radio Festival, the Saltillo International Guitar Festival in Mexico, the Alliances Françaises of India, and elsewhere in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and Macedonia, among other countries. He is regularly invited for live performances on French National Radio, and has always been active in a diverse array of musical projects. Among his many interests are jazz, Indian classical music, and contemporary music, which has found him playing the electric guitar in various ensembles. A seasoned chamber musician, he regularly performs in several chamber music groups, in association with Sébastien Droy, and with Judicaël Perroy, with whom Jouve has formed a duo currently enjoying widespread attention. Jérémy Jouve released his first solo compact disc on the Naxos label in 2004 (Naxos 8.557597).
Jérémy Jouve plays a guitar made by Alfonso Ramos, except in the two duets where he plays a guitar made by Greg Smallman which was kindly loaned to him by Atahualpa Ferly.
For more information, please visit www.jeremyjouve.com.
