Antoine Tamestit viola

Award Winner 2006

Antoine Tamestit studied with Jean Sulem, Jesse Levine, the Tokyo String Quartet and Tabea Zimmermann. He won First Prize at the Maurice Vieux Competition (Paris 2000), William Primrose Competition (Chicago 2001), Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 53rd ARD Munich International Competition. He performs with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Isabelle Faust, Emmanuel Pahud, Mischa Maisky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Paul Meyer, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Natalia Gutman and in trio with Frank-Peter Zimmermann and Christian Poltéra. He is invited by the most prestigious festivals: Lockenhaus, Kronberg, Moritzburg, Rheingau, Schwarzenberg, Davos, Lucerne, Santander, Jerusalem, Newport, Folles Journées in France and Japan. As a soloist, he has worked with the BBC Philharmonic, Bayerische Rundfunk Orchester, Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester, Dresden, Munich, Frankfurt, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Liège, Toulouse orchestras and with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vienna Radio, BBC Scottish and BBC Wales Orchestras, Orchestre National de Lyon, Berlin Komische Oper Orchester and the Warsaw Philharmonic. In the next seasons, he will play with the Berliner Symphoniker and Rotterdam Philharmonic. In recital he has played in venues including Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Musikverein, Wigmore Hall in London, Megaron in Athens, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Konserthus in Stockholm, Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York as part of ECHO's Rising Stars programme. In 2004, Antoine Tamestit was selected to be a BBC New Generation Artist. He won the 2008 Credit Suisse award which will bring him a concert at the Lucerne festival with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti. His first solo recital CD for Naïve (Bach, Ligeti) won him critical acclaim. To be released: Schnittke Concerto with Warsaw Philharmonic and Dimitri Kitajenko. Antoine Tamestit plays on a viola by Etienne Vatelot (Paris).