Judicaël Perroy was born in Paris in 1973, and began guitar studies at the Paris Academy of Music at the age of seven. From 1983 to 1988, he studied with Delia Estrada, then with Raymond Gratien at the National School Academy of Aulnay-sous-Bois. An acknowledged prodigy by the age of eleven, he played two Vivaldi concertos conducted by André Girard at Le Mans in 1984 and won the Second Prize of the International Competition of the Ile-de France at the age of fourteen. In 1988 he was awarded a unanimous First Prize with a special mention at the Academy of Aulnay-sous-Bois. His studies continued under the tutelage of Roberto Aussel and Daniel Lavialle. In 1992 he won a unanimous first prize and the audience prize at the René Bartoli International Competition. Two years later he was awarded his diploma at the Ecole Normale of Paris, where he was a pupil of Alberto Ponce, and triumphed in the Seventh International Competition of Bourg-Madame, a competition in which the audience selects the prizewinner.
In 1996 he graduated from the Paris National Conservatoire of Music, earning the highest placement in his class, and in October 1997 won the Guitar Foundation of America International Solo Competition in La Jolla, California, followed by his Winner’s Tour of the Americas, giving over sixty concerts and master-classes. Since then Judicaël Perroy has toured extensively in France, and to Guadeloupe, Tahiti, Martinique, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Russia, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Australia, the United States, Mexico, and Canada. He has made a number of recordings, and also teaches at the National Academy of Aulnaysous- Bois near Paris.
Judicaël Perroy plays a guitar made by Greg Smallman.
