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Antoine Boyer & Yeore Kim



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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, acclaimed by French and American critics (Jazzman, Vintage Guitars). Antoine also performed Francis-Alfred Moerman's works in tribute concerts at the Angers Gypsy Swing festival in 2010, as well as the Django Reinhardt festival (Samois) in 2011. Antoine Boyer's 2nd CD, Leské (“for him”, in the Sinti language) received several awards, among which was Trad'Mag's 'Bravo'.  In 2011, following the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, Antoine Boyer organized a concert in Brussels to raise money for Act for Japan. Following the release of his 3rd CD, Sita, which earned a 'Revelation' award from Jazzman magazine, Antoine Boyer was chosen as the 'Revelation 2012' by Guitarist Acoustic magazine. He is the first gypsy jazz guitarist to receive this much sought-after distinction. Antoine Boyer has been a headliner at most of the major Gypsy Jazz festivals in Europe and the United States and has shared the stage with such renowned musicians as Philip Catherine, Angelo Debarre, Stochelo Rosenberg, Christian Escoudé, Raphael Faÿs, Tim Kliphuis, Jon Larsen, Adrien Moignard, Robin Nolan, and Paulus Schäfer. More recently, Antoine studied classical guitar with Gérard Abiton in Paris. He is the winner of the 2015 Montigny Classical Guitar Contest. Antoine has been nominated "Révélation Guitare Classique 2016" by the French magazine Guitare Classique. Antoine Boyer and the Flamenco guitarist Samuelito won the "4th European Guitar Award" in Dresden, Germany in 2017, and since then they recorded their first album « Coincidence » and are touring all over the world. In January 2019, Antoine and Samuelito both joined the troupe of International Guitar Night for a tour of the United States and Canada for a 2 months tour across USA and Canada.  Antoine now is currently creating TANGRAM with the Korean harmonica player Yeore Kim and a group of musicians. Yeore Kim, harmonica player, is touring since her teenage years in the Korean jazz scene. Multi instrumentist, she plays also trumpet, drums, cello and piano… She received a master from the Seoul Music University, and won competitions like Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival, Seoul Harmonica Festival, and the World harmonica Festival. She played in various music groups touring in Korea, India and Japan and in different styles (jazz, reggae, theater collaborations, tango, pop, rock…) Antoine and Yeore met in 2018 at the Gypsy Jazz Festival of Taipei (Taiwan) where they played for the first time together. This experience started a new project: a guitar & harmonica duet essentially based on jazz and pop standards and symphonic compositions. Their two instruments dancing together in a very unique and simple style, leaving a large place to improvisation, following the traces of Django Reinhardt, Toots Thielemans and many others…