First prize winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (USA) competition in 2015,  BBC New Generation Artist (2017-2019), « Révélation Instrumentale » of the Victoires de la  Musique Classique in 2019, and winner of Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival (2023), Thibaut  Garcia, has gradually established himself as one of the most gifted guitarists of his generation. 

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The Franco-Spanish guitarist was born in 1994 in Toulouse where he obtained his guitar prize in  the class of Paul Ferret, before continuing his training at the CNSMD of Paris in the class of  Olivier Chassain, while benefiting from the advice of Judicaël Perroy. 

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Thibaut Garcia now plays in the most important concert halls and festivals throughout the  world: Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Festival  Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Salle Bourgie in Montreal, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées,  Grands Interprètes in Toulouse, Festival Musiq'3 in Brussels, Berlin Philharmonie, Teatros del  Canal, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Bachfest Leipzig Auditorium de Bordeaux, Seine Musicale, Grand  Théâtre de Provence...  

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Since his concerto debuts with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in 2016, Thibaut  Garcia returned in 2023 for the creation of El Bihr by Benjamin Attahir. He has also collaborated  with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the BBC orchestras, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Bordeaux,  the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Münchner Symphoniker, the  Orchestre National d’Ile de France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Saint Etienne, the Orchestre  National de Metz, the Orchestre National de Lyon... 

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Highlights of the 2024-2025 season, are concertos with the Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel, the  Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and returns to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival  (as the « WEMAG Soloist » prizewinner), the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Palau de Musica  Barcelona, and also debuts at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. He is curating « Guitarmania » at  the Philharmonie de Paris in April, where he showcases his instrument and its ambassadors for  a week. 

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In chamber music, Thibaut Garcia also performs with Edgar Moreau, Raphaël Sévère, Elsa  Dreisig, Marianne Crebassa, Lucienne Renaudin-Vary, Anastasia Kobekina, the Quatuor Arod…  He also forms duets with Philippe Jaroussky (A sa guitare), Félicien Brut (Vol de Nuit), and  Antoine Morinière (Goldberg Variations). 

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Thibaut Garcia has been a Warner Classics/Erato artist since 2016. After Leyendas in 2016, Bach  Inspirations in 2018, Aranjuez in 2020 (Choc de Classica, Diapason d'Or, Gramphone Editor's  Choice), his album À sa guitare in duet with Philippe Jarrousky was released in autumn 2021. In  autumn 2023 is released his album El Bohemio¸ devoted to the composer Agustin Barrios  Mangoré.