Augustin Pesnon

Augustin Grégoire Pesnon (born 31 March 1988) is a French classical guitarist, teacher and founder and CEO of Paris Guitar Foundation. Denis Azabagić, Zoran Dukić, Adam Del Monte and Carlo Marchione.

In 2014, Pesnon founded the Paris Guitar Foundation (PGF), a Paris-based non-profit organisation that supports classical guitarists. As of August 2024, the foundation has more than 24,000 followers on its Facebook page and more than 7,900 subscribers on its YouTube channel. Today the foundation has 6 members, including guitarist Pierre Bibault, journalist Florent Passamonti and photographer Hervé Milliard. In 2015, he arranged a charity project through PGF for the Nagaland Guitar Society, where people could donate money, strings, books, guitar equipment and other music items. In 2017, the PGF was building a guitar school in Jakarta, Indonesia, and was setting up a music scholarship in France. In 2019, along with contrabassist Stanislas Kuchinsky and percussionist Vitier Vivas, he started a trio that plays pieces inspired by Spanish music. Pesnon himself has gained recognition and success through the 10 international competition he has won so far, most notably the Thailand International Guitar Festival, Nuits Musicales de Cieux, Calcutta International Classical Guitar Festival & Competition and Gitarrenfestival Nordhorn. He performs regularly in countries such as Germany, Austria, UAE, India, Italy, Japan, Romania, and Thailand.

Pesnon plays on a Greg Smallman guitar and uses products from Karura and PGF's sponsor D'Addario.

Personal life Pesnon resided in the 17th arrondissement of Paris from 2016 until 2020, and used his residence as the headquarter of Paris Guitar Foundation. He currently resides in the suburb of Chaville with his wife.