Jérôme Mouffe

Jérôme Mouffe is a virtuoso guitarist from Belgium who has dazzled international audiences with his passionate and spontaneous playing. Jérôme has toured throughout the Unites States and Western Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent appearances include recitals for the Guitar Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, the University of Sonora in Mexico, Guitar Fort Worth, and the South Bay Guitar Society. In November 2009, Jerome was invited to perform at the Agustin Barrios Mangore Festival in Brussels, where he shared the stage with his mentor, Eliot Fisk, in addition to performing his own solo recital at the prestigious Flagey concert hall. His performances were broadcast on Belgian national public radios Musiq3 and Klara.

Jérôme has released his debut CD, Capriccio, on the VGo Recordings label in 2009. The album features early nineteenth century virtuoso Italian music. It includes caprices by Regondi, Legnani, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and transcriptions of Paganini’s famous violin capricci for solo guitar.

In addition to his career as a soloist, Jérôme is an active chamber-music performer. He has performed with guitarists Eliot Fisk and Grisha Goryachev, flutist Benjamin Smolen, violinist Emil Altschuler, tenor Gregorio Rangel, and soprano Sarah-Luise Traubel. His Duo Musagète, founded with flutist Benjamin Smolen, won the New England Conservatory Honors Ensemble prize in fall 2008 and consequently performed a recital in Jordan Hall in the spring of 2009. Inspired and coached by the renowned Fisk/Robinson flute and guitar duo, they are active in developing the repertoire for their formation both through transcriptions and newly composed works.

Jérôme earned his Master of Music degree with honors in the class of Hugues Navez at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles when he was only twenty years old. He studied in Salzburg with the renowned masters Eliot Fisk and Ricardo Gallen. He earned a postgraduate diploma at the Mozarteum Universität. He met and followed the master courses of numerous great musicians including David Russell, Angel and Pepe Romero, Emmanuel Rossfelder, Joaquín Clerch, and Pavel Steidl, among others. He also studied flamenco with the Spanish guitarist Antonio Segura in Brussels.

Jerome is currently finishing up his doctoral studies at New England Conservatory in Boston. Jerome’s final dissertation focuses on the collaboration between composer and performer in the shaping of Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto. His research interests also include improvisation and operatic influences in early nineteenth-century guitar music. A performer and guitar instructor, Jerome maintains a private guitar studio in the Boston area.

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