Raphaël Feuillâtre

French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre regularly delights audiences and critics worldwide with his charismatic artistry. He has performed at the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Beethoven House in Bonn, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Edinburgh International Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, among many more. He has worked with such leading musicians as trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary, recorder player Lucie Horsch, and violinist María Dueñas.

Keen to pass on his love of music and the guitar, Feuillâtre teaches at the Pont Supérieur de Bretagne, is co-founder of the Lille Guitar Academy, and gives masterclasses in Europe and North America. As a talented and prolific arranger, he has also added numerous works to his instrument’s repertoire.

In summer 2025, Feuillâtre gives three solo recitals in France: at Font-Romeu in the Pyrenees, the Festival Jeudis Musicaux in Corme-Écluse, and Musiques Baroques in Savennières. Highlights of the 2025-26 season include a recital at the Via Aeterna Festival in Normandy; Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez in Bezons and Échirolles and at the Arsenal in Metz; a North American recital tour taking in the Rotary Center for the Arts, the Menil Collection, and the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.

Feuillâtre was born in 1996 in Djibouti, on the northeastern coast of Africa, and raised in the small city of Cholet in western France. His parents gave him plastic guitar at the age of 7. Two years later, Feuillâtre enrolled at the Cholet Conservatoire, and in high school he received invaluable lessons from Michel Grizard at the Conservatoire de Nantes. From 2015 to 2020 he pursued advanced studies at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Roland Dyens and Tristan Manoukian. He also worked for a number of years with Judicaël Perroy, whose mentorship was a huge support as he embarked on his career.

Feuillâtre was tipped as a rising star in Europe when he won the 2017 José Tomás Villa de Petrer International Guitar Competition in Valencia, adding this victory to earlier prize-winning competition performances elsewhere in Spain as well as in France, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. His international breakthrough came in 2018 when he won first prize at the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Concert Artist Competition. In 2023, he was ranked second in the table of most listened-to classical artists on Apple Classical.