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Antony Reynaert is a composer, guitarist and educator from Belgium.

Born in the coastal town Ostend, Antony learned to play classical piano at the age of seven.

At the age of fourteen, after seeing a friend play punk and metal riffs, he got intensely into the guitar.

During high school, he practiced for more than five hours a day. At the age of nineteen, he found a teacher who was just perfect for him and learned to play blues while studying guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck & Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour.

After graduating from LUCA School Of Arts as an interior designer Antony devoted his time to studying the guitar as deeply as possible.

Over the last 10 years, Antony traveled back and forth between Chicago and Belgium as he spent close to 200 days studying guitar in the US.

This experience gave him the confidence to give guitar lessons, workshops, and masterclasses on both a national and international level.

Antony feels great joy in teaching others and helping them improve their abilities. Under the influence of his US friends, he started training students of all ages and backgrounds on the guitar in his hometown Ostend. Since then, interest in his teaching approach has grown and he now leads a team of high-skilled teachers across four locations throughout Belgium as executive director of the highly acclaimed music school Gitaar Training Studio.

On his album Out Of The Blue, due December 2023, he explores the borders between his upbringing with classical music, the blues he studied so intensely, and free jazz (which he calls “jazz music’s punk moment” as described in his essay Freedom & Music Part I - Slave Orchestras, Toxic Music Education & Jazz Music’s Punk Moment).

It is his goal in life to become the best musician he can be and to share his music with as many people as possible.

“I love listening to music as much as I love to practice the guitar. It's really all about the love for me. I like to be serious about practice and rehearsal, but I have to feel that love otherwise it's just no good.”

- Antony Reynaert