French violist, winner of many competitions and prizes. Has solo and chamber music career and extensive discography. Teaches at the Cologne Musikhochschule.

French violist Antoine Tamestit studied at the Paris Conservatory, Yale University and with Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin. First prize winner at the Maurice Vieux Competition (Paris, 2000), he subsequently won the William Primrose Competition (Chicago, 2001), the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 53^rd ARD Munich International Music Competition, as well as receiving a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award (2006) and the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk and Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award (2008). A passionate chamber musician, M. Tamestit plays with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, and with the Ebène and Hagen quartets. His solo career includes performances with the BBC Philharmonic, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart, Lyon and Toulouse orchestras, among others. With the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin he premiered a concerto written for him by Olga Neuwirth. Mr. Tamestit teaches at the Köln Musikhochschule and plays a 1672 Stradivarius viola lent him by the Habisreutinger Foundation.

Debut appearance for the LMMC.

www.tamestit.org

MARKUS HADULLA - piano

PROGRAMME:

BRAHMS                     Sonata in E flat major, Opus 120 No. 2 (1894)
                                          Allegro amabile
                                          Allegro appassionato
                                          Andante con moto - Allegro non troppo

SCHUMANN               Märchenbilder, Opus 113 (1851)
                                          Nicht schnell
                                          Lebhaft
                                          Langsam, mit melancholischem Ausdruck

SHOSTAKOVICH       Sonata, Opus 147 (1975)
                                          Moderato
                                          Allegretto
                                          Adagio