Kevin Tamanini

Kevin Tamanini attended the Conservatoires at Evreux, Rouen and lastly Metz, where in 1998, he was awarded the medaille d’or (first prize) for piano (class of Eric Vidonne) and accompaniment (class of David Selig), chamber music and music theory. He studied simultaneously the History of music, Analysis, Harmony, Counterpoint, and Basso Continuo.

For the two next years, he studied with Frau Prof. Konstanze Eickhorst at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Germany) before joining the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken (Germany) with Thomas Duis and Fedele Antonicelli, where he passed his Konzerreifeprüfung (Masters) in 2009. He participated as well in Masterclasses held by Thomas Brandis, Noel Lee, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pascal Le Corre and Anne Queffelec.

Kevin speak several fluently several languages (French, German, English, Portuguese, Spanish and Luxembourgish) and has as well a serious knowledge of Italian, Greek, and Russian.
This, together with his keen interest in literature, helps him to achieve a sensitive and enthusiastic approach to the relationship between words and music in his work with singers. It is therefore not surprising that he has been invited on a number of occasions to take part in different festivals such as the Francis Poulenc International Academy for French melodies, the Opera house of Metz (France), the national opera of Tours (France) and the Luxembourg Philharmonie where he played with artists such as Rolando Villazon, Cécile Bonnet, Valérie Condoluci, Marianne Dellacasagrande and Yuja Wang.

Notable amongst his concerts are the ‘Weiner, Klagen Variations’ by F. Liszt at the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest (concert played on the master’s instrument) in 1997, the Bach’s Concertos in d minor and f minor with Metz conservatory’s chamber orchestra (2001), the Claude Bolling Suites with the flutist Daliah Scholl (2010), multiple series of concerts with the pianist Romain Nosbaum and the actor Christian Berkel (Valkyrie, Inglorious Basterds, der Kriminalist) and several concerts with the clarinetist Jean-Philippe Vivier (solo clarinet at the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra)

In May 2011, he was appointed repetiteur for the ‘Giacomo Variations’ directed by Martin Haselböck with John Malkovich at the Luxembourg Philharmonie.
Since 1999, Kevin was the repetiteur for numerous masterclasses held by wold class singers such as Sigmund Nimsgern, Francois Le Roux, Udo Reinemann or Jennifer Larmore.

He is also a laureate of the Saarbourg International competition for young pianists (1997).