French guitar phenomenon Thomas Viloteau is widely considered one of the most gifted classical guitarists today. He has won first place in an impressive list of some of the world’s finest competitions such as the Guitar Foundation of America competition, the Francisco Tárrega and Andrés Segovia competitions. Since then, he has gone on to concertize in some of the best venues throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain, Taiwan, and Puerto Rico. His recordings include ‘Guitar Recital’ with Naxos, ‘Romantic’ with La Ma de Guido, a DVD with MelBay, ‘Dances Through the Centuries,’ and ‘A Song and Dance’ on Tigado Records. He his working on his fifth studio album to be released in 2022. Viloteau's rich and diverse educational background led him to write a book on guitar technique ‘In the Black Box, Technique(s) of the Classical Guitar,’ which quickly sold more than a thousand copies worldwide. He is the recipient of the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association and he has been the Artist-in-Residence at the radio show Performance Today, broadcasting his performances to more than a million people across the USA. Thomas Viloteau is on the guitar faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD