安托万·杜弗（Antoine Dufour），40岁，居住在加拿大蒙特利尔，是一位备受赞誉的“音乐家中的音乐家”。在全球顶尖吉他演奏家中，他以卓越的技术和深厚的艺术造诣而闻名。他擅长创作兼具环境音乐和进步音乐风格的器乐作品，这些作品跨越了文化和语言的界限。他以极具视觉吸引力且富有娱乐性的演奏风格，吸引了来自世界各地的忠实乐迷。
安托万已经发行了八张备受好评的原创专辑、两张现场演奏DVD，并进行了长达六年的全球巡演，同时在YouTube上的累计播放量超过5000万次。这些成就奠定了他在指弹原声吉他领域的领先地位。他的创新和创造力使他成为这一领域的标杆人物。他的全球巡演足迹遍及加拿大、德国、美国、中国、英国、法国、荷兰等多个国家，展现了他在国际范围内的广泛影响力。在2014年，他计划发行一张全新的专辑，为其杰出的职业生涯再添亮点。
安托万的成就包括获得加拿大指弹吉他大赛的冠军，以及在威菲尔德（Winfield）国际吉他大赛中获得第三名。他签约了领先的器乐音乐唱片公司Candyrat，并与诸如安迪·麦基（Andy McKee）和唐·罗斯（Don Ross）等吉他大师同台演出。
除了卓越的演奏，安托万还致力于与观众建立深厚的联系。他通过演出后的见面会、研讨会、工作坊和大师班，与粉丝面对面互动。他的社交媒体进一步扩大了这种影响力，使他能够与全球数百万的粉丝建立联系。许多粉丝在YouTube上录制并分享了对他作品的翻奏，显示了他们对这位艺术家的热爱和支持。
安托万的卓越技术受到媒体和评论家的高度评价，他在传统媒体中的描述包括：
“……（安托万是一位）指弹的奇才，他的作品复杂而精致，既抚慰心灵又引人深思。他的旋律惊人，源源不断，有时甚至让人难以相信是由人类的手指完成的。”
以及：
“年轻的安托万·杜弗在YouTube上赢得了数百万的观看，这并不令人意外。他的演奏风格融合了如摇滚乐队般的强劲节奏、极富感染力的弗拉门戈式打击乐、深邃反思的旋律，以及灵巧敏捷的指法。”
40 year old Montreal, Canada based guitarist Antoine Dufour is known colloquially among the best guitar players in the world as a musician’s musician. To fans of popular music, he deftly combines jaw-dropping guitar playing skills and an artistic soul in crafting instrumental compositions that reflect ambient and progressive music that transcends global cultures and languages. That he does this in an incredibly visual and entertaining style has endeared him to a broad spectrum of fans of popular music.
Via his 8 albums of original material released to critical acclaim, two live performance DVDs, 6 years of global touring and more than 50 million cumulative views on YouTube, Antoine Dufour has emerged as a young star of fingerstyle acoustic guitar, building a worldwide reputation for innovation and creativity. 2014 will showcase his abilities as he tours global markets including Canada, Germany, USA, China, UK, France Netherlands, and many others. He has recorded a new album of material that is slated for a fall 2014 release.
Antoine’s records of accomplishment include winning First place at the Canadian Fingerstyle Guitar Championships, Third place at the ultra-prestigious international guitar championships at Winfield, recording for the leading Instrumental music record label Candyrat, plus touring and playing with luminary guitar players such as Andy McKee and Don Ross.
Through his active schedule of post show meet and greets with every fan after gigs, holding seminars, workshops and masterclasses as part of his tour schedule he truly loves engaging fans on a one-to-one level – however, it is via social media that he has connected with millions of fans spread out all over the globe. His fans have recorded countless covers of his music on YouTube and his fan base is as loyal and ravenous to see him perform as any artist out there today.
Clearly, fans are attracted to his technical prowess in the progressive Acoustic Guitarist as trail-blazed by such geniuses as Michael Hedges and Preston Reed; yet, it is a solid reflection of his ability and persona that he is simultaneously hailed by reviewers and critics alike.
He has been described within traditional media and press with accolades such as:
“… (Antoine is a) wonderland of fingerpicking and highly intricate compositions soothing the soul as they engage the mind. Dufour’s riffs are incredible, never-ending, and at times seemingly impossible for human fingers to pull off.”
And
”The youthful Antoine Dufour’s million views on Youtube are easily understood. His style packs a rock band’s punch behind extraordinary fluency and features highly effective flamenco-like percussion and deftly reflective melodies as well as urgent, nimble picking.”