Bio

James Audet is a professional classical guitarist from the Blue Mountains, Australia. He received his Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2014, and the following year he was accepted into the Master of Music course at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, where he studied for 3 years under Professor Marco Tamayo. Having completed his Masters degree in 2019, James has since returned to the Sydney Conservatorium where he is currently studying his Doctor of Musical Arts degree under professor Vladimir Gorbach, researching the music of Giulio Regondi.

In 2021 James was awarded the Sydney Conservatorium Albert Scholarship to assist his research, and in the same year, he was additionally awarded the University of Sydney Postgraduate Award for academic excellence. James has received numerous prizes throughout his performance career, including the first prize in the Bosnian IMKA music competition, the 3rd prize in the Vilnius international guitar competition, and most recently the 2nd prize at the 2022 New Zealand International Guitar Competition.

James has an active performance career in Sydney and abroad, performing frequently as a soloist, as well as with the esteemed young flutist Laura Cliff as part of their newly formed ‘Duo Concinnity’. Additionally, he is currently working to publish an edition of Giulio Regondi’s concertina compositions arranged for the classical guitar, which he is producing as part of his doctoral research, and is expecting to complete in the coming year.