{{Short description|French violist (born 1979)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = Tamestit (cropped).jpg | caption = Tamestit at Rheingau Musik Festival 2023 | name = Antoine Tamestit | birth_date = 1979 | birth_place = Paris | occupation = Violist | website = {{URL|https://www.antoinetamestit.com/about}} }}
'''Antoine Tamestit''' (born 1979) is a French violist. He premiered several contemporary compositions, including Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto (2015). Tamestit plays the Stradivarius viola ''Gustav Mahler''.
==Life and career== Tamestit was born in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jean Sulem,<ref name="Davenport" /> 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.<ref name="Kronberg" />
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].<ref name="Lucerne" /> In 2014, he played viola for the recording of Berlioz's ''Harold en Italie'',<ref name=" Gürzenich Orchester Köln a417">{{cite web | title=Drei Fragen an Antoine Tamestit | website=Gürzenich Orchester Köln | url=https://www.guerzenich-orchester.de/de/antoinetamestit | language=de | access-date=15 September 2023 | archive-date=15 June 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615024443/https://www.guerzenich-orchester.de/de/antoinetamestit | url-status=live }}</ref> conducted by Valery Gergiev.<ref name="Kronberg" />
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''.<ref name="Salzburger Festspiele 2021 t421">{{cite web | title=Antoine Tamestit | website=Salzburger Festspiele | date=17 August 2021 | url=https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/a/antoine-tamestit | language=de | access-date=15 September 2023 | archive-date=19 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819110917/https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/a/antoine-tamestit | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, he premiered Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto, which was commissioned by him, with the Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi.<ref name="Salzburger Festspiele 2021 t421" /> This concerto depicts Tamestit's skills and character.<ref name="Strings Magazine 2018 q410">{{cite web | first=Inge | last=Kjemtrup | title=Violist Antoine Tamestit on His Career as a Solo Violist—and the Dangers Posed by 12 Pages of Pizzicato | website=Strings Magazine | date=26 February 2018 | url=https://stringsmagazine.com/violist-antoine-tamestit-on-his-career-as-a-solo-violist-and-the-dangers-posed-by-12-pages-of-pizzicato/ | access-date=30 July 2023 | archive-date=26 September 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926130454/https://stringsmagazine.com/violist-antoine-tamestit-on-his-career-as-a-solo-violist-and-the-dangers-posed-by-12-pages-of-pizzicato/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p350">{{cite web | title=Antoine Tamestit | website=Stradivari Stiftung Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray | url=http://stradivarius-stiftung.ch/en/antoine-tamestit-2/ | access-date=2024-06-19 | archive-date=19 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819111009/http://stradivarius-stiftung.ch/en/antoine-tamestit-2/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
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.<ref name="Home s859" /><ref name="Rundfunk 2023 t932">{{cite web | last=Rundfunk | first=Bayerischer | title=Album der Woche – Quatuor Ébène mit Antoine Tamestit: Mozart: Streichquintette | website=BR-KLASSIK | date=22 April 2023 | url=https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/br-klassik-empfiehlt/cd/mozart-quintette-quatuor-ebene-antoine-tamestit-album-der-woche-100.html | language=de | access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref>
Together with Frank Peter Zimmermann and {{ill|Christian Poltéra|nl}}, Tamestit founded the Trio Zimmermann.<ref name="Neumarkter Konzertfreunde e.V. r885">{{cite web | title=Antoine Tamestit | website=Neumarkter Konzertfreunde e.V. | url=https://neumarkter-konzertfreunde.de/kuenstler/antoine-tamestit | language=de | access-date=13 September 2023 | archive-date=9 June 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609220531/https://neumarkter-konzertfreunde.de/kuenstler/antoine-tamestit | url-status=live }}</ref>
He was professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, the Conservatoire de Paris, and teaches in masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy.<ref name="Home s859" />
Tamestit plays on the first viola made in 1672 by Antonio Stradivari, called ''Gustav Mahler''.<ref name="Home s859">{{cite web | title=Antoine Tamestit | website=rbartists | url=https://www.rbartists.at/en/artists/antoine-tamestit | access-date=13 September 2023 | archive-date=7 June 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607025027/https://www.rbartists.at/en/artists/antoine-tamestit | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Schacher | first=Thomas | title=Antoine Tamestit und die Viola: Das Mauerblümchen wird zur Rose | website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung | date=12 November 2021 | url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/antoine-tamestit-und-die-viola-das-mauerbluemchen-wird-zur-rose-ld.1654322 | language=de | access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref>
== Awards == Source:<ref name="Home s859" />
* 2001 Primrose International Viola Competition * 2003 Young Concert Artists International Auditions * 2004 ARD International Music Competition * 2008 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award<ref name="Lucerne Festival f344">{{cite web | title=Credit Suisse Young Artist Award | website=Lucerne Festival | url=https://www.lucernefestival.ch/de/partner-und-freunde/awards/creditsuisse#preistragerinnen-2613 | language=de | access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref> * 2022 Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau
== Discography == * {{citation | last1=Tamestit | first1=Antoine | last2=Debussy | first2=Claude | last3=Bartók | first3=Béla | last4=Bruckner | first4=Anton | author5=LSO | author6=London Symphony Orchestra | title=François-Xavier Roth conducts Debussy, Bartók, and Bruckner – With Antoine Tamestit : London Symphony Orchestra | publisher=LSO | year=2017 | oclc=1252973382}} * {{citation | last1=Hoyer | first1=Myriam | last2=Cuvillier | first2=Jérémie | last3=Accardo | first3=Salvatore | last4=Tamestit | first4=Antoine | last5=Capuçon | first5=Gautier | last6=Pressler | first6=Menahem | last7=Schumann | first7=Robert | last8=Brahms | first8=Johannes | author9=Idéale Audience International | author10=ARTE France | title=Menahem Pressler, Salvatore Accardo, Antoine Tamestit, Gautier Capuçon : Schumann and Brahms | publisher=Idéale Audience : Arte France | year=2008 | oclc=956370543}} * {{citation | last1=Widmann | first1=Jörg | last2=Bouchkov | first2=Marc | last3=Harding | first3=Daniel | last4=Philippe | first4=Bruno | last5=Tamestit | first5=Antoine | author6=Signum-Kvartetten | author7=Bayriske Radios Symfoniorkester (München) | title=Viola concerto | publisher=Harmonia Mundi Musique | year=2018 | oclc=1283940529 | language=und}} * {{citation | last1=Mozart | first1=Wolfgang Amadeus | last2=Capuçon | first2=Renaud | last3=Langrée | first3=Louis | last4=Levin | first4=Robert | last5=Tamestit | first5=Antoine | author6=Skotske Kammerorkester | title=Violin concertos nos 1 & 3 | publisher=EMI : Virgin Classics | publication-place=[S.l.] | year=2009 | oclc=871891378 | language=und}} * {{citation | last1=Mozart | first1=Wolfgang Amadeus | last2=Andsnes | first2=Leif Ove | last3=Brovtsyn | first3=Boris | last4=Fröst | first4=Martin | last5=Jansen | first5=Janine | last6=Levin | first6=Robert | last7=Rysanov | first7=Maksim | last8=Tamestit | first8=Antoine | last9=Thedéen | first9=Torleif | author10=Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie | title=Clarinet concerto | publisher=BIS Records | year=2013 | oclc=874828949 | language=und}} * {{citation | last1=Berlioz | first1=Hector | last2=Cargill | first2=Karen | last3=Gerg'ev | first3=Valerij | last4=Tamestit | first4=Antoine | author5=Londons Symfoniorkester | title=Harold en Italie | publisher=London Symphony Orchestra | year=2015 | oclc=911053972 | language=und}} * {{citation | last1=Tamestit | first1=Antoine | last2=Tiberghien | first2=Cédric | last3=Vieuxtemps | first3=Henri | last4=Donizetti | first4=Gaetano | last5=Mazas | first5=F. | last6=Ney | first6=Casimir | last7=Bellini | first7=Vincenzo | title=Bel canto : la voix de l'alto = the voice of viola | publisher=Harmonia Mundi | publication-place=Arles | year=2017 | oclc=1043756288 | language=zxx}} * {{citation | last1=Beethoven | first1=Ludwig <van> | last2=Poltéra | first2=Christian | last3=Tamestit | first3=Antoine | last4=Zimmermann | first4=Frank Peter | author5=Trio Zimmermann | title=String Trio op. 3, Serenade op.8 | publisher=BIS Records | publication-place=s.l | year=2014 | oclc=936050849}}
== References == <references>
<ref name="Davenport">{{cite news | last = Davenport | first = Helena | date = 14 September 2019 | url = https://www.pnn.de/kultur/interview-mit-bratschist-antoine-tamestit-ja-ich-bin-streng/25015074.html | title = Ja, ich bin streng | work = Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten | location = Potsdam | language = de | access-date = 16 September 2020 }}</ref>
<ref name="Kronberg">{{cite web | url = https://www.kronbergacademy.de/en/artists/person/antoine-tamestit | title = Antoine Tamestit / viola | publisher = Kronberg Academy | date = 2016 | access-date = 18 November 2022 | archive-date = 18 November 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221118234055/https://www.kronbergacademy.de/en/artists/person/antoine-tamestit | url-status = live }}</ref>
<ref name="Lucerne">{{cite web | url = https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/directory-of-artists/antoine_tamestit/577 | title = Antoine Tamestit / viola | publisher = Lucerne Festival | date = 2022 | access-date = 18 November 2022 | archive-date = 18 November 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221118235030/https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/directory-of-artists/antoine_tamestit/577 | url-status = live }}</ref>
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==Further reading== * {{cite web | url=https://cso.org/experience/article/19542/antoine-tamestit-explains-his-passion-for-the | title=Antoine Tamestit explains his passion for the viola — it suits him 'just right' | Chicago Symphony Orchestra }}
==External links== * {{official|https://www.antoinetamestit.com/about}} {{in lang|en|fr}} * [https://www.intermusica.co.uk/artist/antoine-tamestit Antoine Tamestit on Intermusica]
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