Born in Northern France, Jean-Pierre Jumez has
completed his musical studies in France, in the U.S. (including with
the late Charlie Byrd) and in Rome (at the Accademia Santa Cecilia and
with conductor GianLuigi
Gelmetti).
During 20 years he has been one of the busiest concert players,
performing in over 200 countries (an established Guinness record),
either as a soloist or with symphony orchestras (including the
Louisville S.O.) and jazz bands (including Claude
Bolling).
He has also performed duets with singers, cellists, double-bass
players, flutists, pianists, violonists... His recording of the
complete Boccherini
Quintets with the Bulgarian Quartet remains an artistic
event. With violonist Jean-Pierre Wallez, he recorded an unpublished work
by Paganini, inspired by a tropical beauty, Madame Frassinet...
A number
of original compositions are published in his music sheet collection
"Colours of the Guitar", among them the brilliant Russian composer Piotr Panin.
He was one of the first Western artists to ever perform in communist
China (1977) were he taught and recorded the first album done by a
foreigner -- a local best-seller.

JP Jumez
has made multiple appearances at Carnegie
Recital Hall, Alice
Tully
Hall, Chaikovski
Hall in Moscow, Big Philharmonic
Hall in St.
Petersburg, Théâtre
des Champs-Elysées
and Salle
Pleyel in Paris, Cecilia
Mereiles in Rio, Opera House
in
Capetown, Mozartsaal
in Vienna, NHK hall
in Tokyo, Cultural Center in
Hong Kong... He is also the founder of the Martinique Guitar Festival.
In the 90's, the famous Paris cabaret Les 3 Mailletz
presented "Les Lundis de JP Jumez": each Monday, musicians, actors,
artists, cooks from a specific country gathered around local wines for
a cultural immersion session. His program "PASSPORT GUITAR" (program)
has been an exciting evocation of the multiple cultures he had come
across. He also engaged in multiple world tours organised by Club Méditerranée
and took in charge the on-board musical programs for Air France.
From
1995 until 2010, he mostly dedicated his time to writing and to media
appearances (radio, TV, Internet, magazines...).
In
2010-2011, he joined the Magenia
mime theater for première performances in
Paris and in Avignon (for the in Festival). In
2012, he performed at the prestigious Club Interallié in
Paris.
In
2015, he created in Paris a pantomime around the French
nursery song "J'ai
du bon tabac" with a
troup of 12 mimes, and a band performing Claude Bolling's commissioned
arrangement on the same theme.
In 2019,
launching of a new series entitled "Fifteen
Shades of Guitar"-- following his celebrated album series "Colours
of the Guitar". His new eponym show
associating sound & light is a captivating diurnal guitar
journey.
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