The French-born guitarist Thomas Viloteau has won awards in numerous international competitions, including first prize at the Segovia Competition (Linares, Spain), Mottola (Italy), Ville d’Antony (Paris, France), Sernancelhe (Portugal) and in 2006, only nine years after he started playing, the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, resulting in his first recording for Naxos [8.570510]. In the summer of 2012, after years away from competitions, he played for the first time at the Francisco Tárrega Competition in Benicàssim, where he won the prestigious first prize.