Antoine Boyer

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Antoine Boyer drank from the most authentic sources of gypsy jazz, being a disciple of such masters as Mandino Reinhardt and Francis-Alfred Moerman, with whom he recorded his first CD-DVD in 2009, which was acclaimed by French and American critics (Jazzman, Vintage Guitars). Antoine Boyer's 2nd CD, Leské ('for him', in Sinti language) received several awards, among which Trad'Mag's 'Bravo'. In 2011, following the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Antoine Boyer organises a concert in Brussels to raise money for Act for Japan. Following the release of his 3rd CD, called Sita, which earned a 'Revelation' award from Jazzman magazine, Antoine Boyer was chosen as the 'Revelation 2012' by Guitarist Acoustic magazine. Antoine Boyer has been billed by most major gypsy jazz festivals in Europe and the United States and has been the first guest of the First Gypsy Jazz festival of Taiwan. He shared the stage with such renowned musicians as Philip Catherine, Stochelo Rosenberg, Angelo Debarre, Christian Escoudé, Raphael Faÿs, Tim Kliphuis, Jon Larsen, Lollo Meier, Adrien Moignard, Robin Nolan, Paulus Schäfer, etc… Antoine performs regularly in Solo, with the Gustav Lundgren Trio, and with Samuelito with whom he recorded his last album ‘Coincidence’. He is now part of group Selmer #607 and is regularly invited as a soloist to play with many artists around the world. He also studies classical guitar with Gérard Abiton in Paris and is the winner of the 2015 Montigny Classical Guitar Contest. He has been nominated "révélation Guitare Classique 2016" by the french magazine Guitare Classique and Antoine Boyer & Samuelito won the "4th European Guitar Award" in Dresden (2016).