Touring artist for the JM Canada’s 2024–2025 Emerging Artists Concerts Tour, master’s student with scholarship at the world-renowned Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University with famous professor Manuel Barrueco, and Research Funds of Quebec grantee, the classical guitarist Tommy Dupuis had an astounding past three years despite the pandemic. He appeared in Concerts Lachine’s podcast, in the JM Canada’s concert series Moments musicaux, in many Quebec halls, performances in music festivals in Koblenz and Iserlohn in Germany, and the Guitar Foundation of America in New York; Tommy Dupuis’s intention of becoming an international touring guitarist is obvious and unstoppable.
His out-of-the-ordinary musical expressivity was spotted early on in his career. Only three years after picking up classical guitar, he was voted favourite in the prestigious Canadian Music Competition 2020, he was the laureate of many local competitions, and received over fifteen grants including five from the JM Canada Foundation.
The extraordinary journey of classical guitarist Tommy Dupuis began at the Cégep de Drummondville when he undertook a double Diploma of College Studies program in Health Sciences and Jazz guitar interpretation. After falling in love with classical guitar, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to music at the School of Music of Sherbrooke University.