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Laura Rouy

Born in 1998, Laura Rouy started playing classical guitar at the age of 6 with her father, jazz guitarist Pascal Rouy. She studied at the Mée Sur Seine music school with Christine Martin Culet and Carlos Marin before entering the class of Gabriel Bianco and Antoine Fougeray at the Maurice Ravel Conservatory in Paris where she got the Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales. In 2019, she was 1st named in bachelor at the Conservatory Van Amsterdam where she is currently studying.

She is the winner of several competitions in France: 1st Prize at the
international Arpoador competition in Carry le Rouet (age under 20) in
2017; 2nd Prize at the Drome international guitar competition in Valence
(age under 18) in 2016 and 2nd Prize (no age limit) in 2018. In 2021, she is the winner of the Roland Dyens International Competition / Révélation Guitare Classique Magazine at the Paris-Guitar-Festival de Montrouge (92) and is on the cover of the magazine in December 2021.

Passionate about Latin American music, she plays in trio ( TriOblivion)
with her father (guitar ) and her sister Ella Rouy (cello ) a repertoire through arrangements around Tango and its influences (Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Gardel, Claude Nougaro, Villa Lobos, Roland Dyens…).
In 2021, she formed the Duo Canopée with the cellist Pauline Ngolo,
offering a repertoire rich in Latin rhythms and expressive melodies
(Piazzolla, Villa Lobos, Dyens, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, Duplessy).

Laura Rouy performed in solo recital at many festivals, at the Festival de Carry-Louet (first part by François-Xavier Dangremont), at the « Journées de la guitare » at Mée-Sur-Seine, at the Festival Guitare Guitares à Pibrac (first part of Sébastien Llinares), or at the Gitaristen Podium Online (first part of Stefan Schmitz).
Soon she will perform at the Paris Guitar Festival in Montrouge, at the Allier 6 String Festival, at the Guitar Festival in France ,at Nuits musicales de Cieux and at the Radio France Occitanie Festival in Montpellier.

Laura Rouy has been invited several times to the radio program “Guitare Guitares” by Sébastien Linares, for a live experience on France Musique.