Antoine Tamestit
Antoine Tamestit (born 1979) is a French violist. Tamestit studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jean Sulem, and further with Jesse Levine at Yale University, and with Tabea Zimmermann. He was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2004 to 2006. He has performed at such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, and Carnegie Hall and with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome [14 March 2019]. In 2014, he played viola for the recording of Berlioz's Harold en Italie, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Tamestit premiered several contemporary compositions, including Thierry Escaich's La Nuit des chants, Bruno Mantovani's Concerto pour deux altos et orchestre and Olga Neuwirth's Remnants of songs… an Amphigory and Weariness heals Wounds. In 2015 he premiered Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto, which was commissioned by him, with the Orchester de Paris and Paavo Järvi. Tamestit played chamber music with Emmanuel Ax, Isabelle Faust, Martin Fröst, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emmanuel Pahud, Francesco Piemontesi, Cédric Tiberghien, Yuja Wang, Jörg Widmann, Shai Wosner, and the Ébène Quartet. Together with Frank Peter Zimmermann and , Tamestit founded the Trio Zimmermann. He was professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, the Conservatoire de Paris, and teaches in masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy. Tamestit plays on the first viola made in 1672 by Antonio Stradivari, called Gustav Mahler. Awards 
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 2001 Primrose International Viola Competition
 2003 Young Concert Artists International Auditions
 2004 ARD International Music Competition
 2008 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
 2022 Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau

Discography

References

External links
  
 Antoine Tamestit on Intermusica

1979 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition prize-winners
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists
French classical violists
21st-century French musicians
French male musicians
21st-century French male musicians
21st-century violists