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Antoine Tamestit
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Antoine Tamestit is a French violist born July 11, 1979.
Son of the violinist and composer Gérard Tamestit, Antoine Tamestit studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris in the viola class of Jean Sulem. He then studied with Jesse Levine and the Tokyo Quartet at Yale University, and then with Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin.
In 2000, he won first prize at the Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition, in 2001 that of the William Primrose International Viola Competition, in 2003 that of the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York and in 2004 that of the ARD International Competition in Munich. . He was named New Generation Artist of the BBC channel for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 and Revelation instrumental soloist of the year at the Victoires de la musique classique 2007.
He has already performed on international stages such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or the Carnegie Hall, with groups such as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ebony Quartet or the Bavarian Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. . He has participated in numerous chamber music festivals, such as La Folle Journée in Nantes or Tokyo and the Davos and Lucerne festivals, playing with Nicholas Angelich, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky and Jean-Guihen Queyras . Since 2005, he has been on tour in Europe. He is a member of the “Zimmerman Trio” founded in 2007 by violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann.
Antoine Tamestit was from 2007 to 2013 professor of viola at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Cologne).
Antoine Tamestit plays an Etienne Vatelot viola and since 2008 a Stradivarius from 1672, the "Mahler", which is the first viola of the Italian master, on loan from the Swiss Habisreutinger Foundation.
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