Biography
Known as one of the most active guitarist from his generation, Antoine Moriniere is invited to play solo concerts and concertos all around the world. He performed in many countries like France (Philharmonie de Paris), Canada, Greece, Cyprus, Thaïland, China, Nepal, Jordan (Amman Roman Theater) Morocco (Fez World Sacred Music Festival) England (Wigmore Hall, King’s Place) Ireland, Belgium (Bozar Festival), Poland, Finland, Estonia, Netherlands, Portugal (Casa de Musica), Romania, Spain (Palau de la Musica), Germany (BachFest Leipzig), Italy, Austria, Hungary, Montenegro, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danemark, Switzerland.
During his career, Antoine has played in chamber music with phenomenal artists such as Thibaut Garcia, Philippe Bernold, Raphaël Sévère, Manon Galy, Marianne Piketty, Fatma Saïd, Hanna Salzenstein, Joséphine Olech, Raphaël Feuillatre, Gabriel Bianco.
Interested in contemporary music, he collaborates with several composers like the japanese composer Rikako Watanabe, Raphaël Sévère, Léo Brouwer, Jean Frédéric Neuburger.
15 years ago, Antoine started to play in a guitar duo with Thibaut Garcia. They played baroque music from Bach, Couperin, Rameau, Scarlatti in multiple concerts. In 2020 the started a new transcription of the Goldberg Variations for 2 guitars with special instrument made for it. The album has been recorded for the Warner company in 2025.
He also started a new project “Labyrinthe Baroque” with the Iranian mezzo soprano Anousha Nazari mixing the sound of ancient occidental music from Haendel and Strozzi with old oriental poetry from Rûmi andMaraghi.
Always looking for new repertoire, Antoine started to play with world music artists such as Sami Yusuf, Ballaké Cissoko, Nabyla Man, Guo Gan, Jose Manuel Leon, in several places such as the “World sacred music festival” in Fès (Morocco) or the “Tanweer Festival” in UAE or Yenikapi in Istanbul in front of 70000 people in the audience.
Rewards
Antoine is, at the age of 30, one of the very few in the world of guitar, winner of so many international competitions :
– 1er prize International Sevilla Guitar Competition (Spain)
– 1er prize Wien Guitar competition (Austria)
– 1er prize Antony Guitar Competition (France)
– 1er prize Sta Cecilia Music Competition (Porto)
– 1er prize Olsztyn International Guitar Competition (Poland)
– 1er prize Leopold Bellan Music Competition (Paris)
– 2nd prize Internation Jose Thomas Guitar Competition (Petrer, Spain)
– 2nd prize Coria Guitar Competition (Spain)
– 2nd prize Kutna Hora Guitar Competition (Czech Republic)
– 2nd prize Anna Amalia guitar competition (Germany)
– Special Prize for the best contempory music interpretation in Wien Guitar Competition
– Special Prize in Kutna Hora
Partners
Antoine is using Savarez strings, plays a guitar from Martin Blackwell and he is sponsored by Fondation Safran.