Thierry André is a luthier and father of a young family based in QC, Canada. In 1992, at the age of 19, he began a career in guitar making that has proven to be one of the most influential and unique in America. Through his personal and dedicated work focusing on the acoustic guitar, André has consistently transposed the technical aspects of crafting the stringed instrument, presenting it in an innovative and expressive register: -In his hands, the utilitarian object maintains its full acoustic vocation, its ancestral quality, and yet its composition is tirelessly renewed, each time displaying a distinct formal and aesthetic research.
His expressive language, combining drawing, sculpture, and shell-based assemblies, has, among other things, created new techniques for assembling rounded bodies for the guitar and led to the development of its more elongated shape. Playing on the whole object rather than on its degree of ornamentation, André relentlessly validates the idea that the making of a stringed instrument constitutes an act of creation in its own right.