Recitals in the Music Room
Raphaël Feuillâtre, guitar
Sunday October 26, 2025 at 3:00pm
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Sunday October 26, 2025 at 3:00pm
Guitar sensation Raphaël Feuillâtre is rapidly becoming the new voice of classical guitar. Since winning the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America competition in 2018, this Djibouti-born French virtuoso has dazzled audiences from Carnegie Hall to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. What sets him apart is his remarkable ability to breathe new life into Baroque keyboard pieces on six strings, beautifully showcased on his Deutsche Grammophon debut album Visages Baroques—a rare achievement for guitarists. Even rarer is his prolific recording career: with several albums released since his debut, Feuillâtre is redefining what it means to be a recording artist in the classical guitar world.
Feuillâtre’s latest album, Latin Passions, takes us on a journey across a thousand and one Latin faces of the guitar, in a program combining popular rhythms, choreographic bounce and sophisticated counterpoint. Navigating between Scarlatti, Villa-Lobos and Piazzolla, not forgetting Albéniz and the lesser known but equally exciting Tarrega and Llobet, Raphaël once again demonstrates his total mastery of the instrument and fantastic expressivity.
Program
TARREGA: Prelude No. 1.
LLOBET: Catalan Folk Song : Canco del Lladre
ALBENIZ: Albeniz – Capricho Catalan (Tr. R. Feuillâtre); Asturias (Tr. R. Feuillâtre)
LLOBET: Catalan Folk Song Testament d’Amelia
TARREGA:Prelude No. 18
ALBENIZ: Torre Bermeja (Tr. R. Feuillâtre)
SCARLATTI: Sonata K. 380; Sonata K. 322 (Tr. Feuillâtre)
LLOBET: Solés – Variations on a theme of Sor (La Folia)
VILLA-LOBOS: Brazilian Popular Suite
PIAZZOLLA: Inverno porteno (Arr. S. Assad); La muerte del Angel
Raphaël Feuillâtre’s Biography
Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America competition in 2018 (USA) and ADAMI’s “Classical Revelation 2021”, Raphaël was chosen as an exclusive artist by the label Deutsche Grammophon in 2022. He is, to date, one of the very few guitarists to have signed with this legendary label. This fruitful collaboration gave birth to a first single “Les Barricades Mystérieuses”, soon followed by his debut album “Visages Baroques” in 2023, which displays different facets of the Baroque aesthetic.
Following his acclaimed debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2023, he has performed in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals – including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the “Folle Journée” in Nantes, and the Beethoven Haus in Bonn – as well as at major guitar events such as the Festival International de Guitare de Paris, the Festival Guitarras del Mundo in Argentina, and the Changsha International Guitar Festival in China.
Born in Djibouti in 1996, Raphaël was introduced to the guitar by his first teacher, Hacène Addadi, before joining Michel Grizard‘s class at the Conservatoire de Nantes in 2012. Three years later, he entered the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the classes of Roland Dyens and Tristan Manoukian. During this period, he was mentored by Judicaël Perroy, who played an essential role in his artistic development.
Driven by a desire to pass on his passion for music and the guitar, Raphaël teaches at the Pôle Supérieur de Bretagne and is co-founder of the Lille Guitar Academy, a summer academy for guitarists. Students from all over the world receive his guidance at masterclasses given at the San Francisco Conservatory, the Manhattan School in New York and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. He is also involved in projects to raise awareness of the arts, particularly following a tour in the USA during which he took part in several activities in schools and prisons.
Raphaël Feuillâtre is supported by Savarez, a historic string-manufacturing company founded in 1770, and plays a guitar by Australian luthier Greg Smallman.
To learn more about Raphaël Feuillâtre, visit his website.
