Join us for LAGV’s popular concert series, created to showcase talented musicians. Entrance is free. Donations, which go towards supporting the Music Program at the Cathedral, are gratefully accepted.

Jules Hemmi hails from the South-West of France, where he won his prize at the Maurice Ravel conservatory in Bayonne in 2016. He continued his musical studies until obtaining his teaching diploma in Metz in 2018, then his performer’s license in 2021 in Rennes in Michel Grizard’s class. In the same year, he won second prize in the “Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga” International Guitar Competition in Bilbao.

Throughout his career, he has explored a varied repertoire, particularly contemporary music, and has performed a number of original pieces.

His discovery of jazz improvisation and traditional Balkan music has also left its mark on his musical life. He has performed in a variety of formations: folk dances, jazz bands, harp-guitar duos, and notably in his current guitar quartet: the Iris Quartet.

For several years now, he has been studying the repertoire of women composers, first to teach his students this music, then to create this more personal musical project in line with his convictions.

“With this concert, I hope to showcase the richness of an immense and totally unknown repertoire. I hope to inspire those who listen to me to discover women composers, and thus make up for centuries of invisibility. Finally, I hope to put an end to certain tenacious presuppositions that suggest that female composers don’t exist, are few in number, or that their music is of poor quality.”