THOMAZ TAVARES

FLUTIST

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"A polished performer, Tavares offered an expressive performance that embraced the work's lyrical and virtuoso demands, his pure, direct sound never wavering from the mission at hand".

- THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE

BIO

Paris based flutist Thomaz Tavares regularly performs, records, and tours with the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe under the baton of Nicolas Krauze and is co-founder of Ensemble IMAGO, ensemble in residence at the Fondation des Etats Unis. He was a recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley grant for the 2019-2020 year during which he explored the French Belle Époque repertoire and the flute music of the composer Yuko Uebayashi. He served as flute professor at the Conservatoire de Provins and as interim professor at the Conservatoire Jean-Baptiste Lully. For the 2024–25 season, he will serve as guest adjunct professor at Texas A&M-Commerce and guest professor at Cal State Fullerton…

"Thomaz has an innate sense of musical aesthetics in all styles. The clarity of his playing, his precision, his elegance as an interpreter... show an astonishing maturity for his youth. Furthermore, his talents as an accompanist for the voice on the flute are particularly promising."

- VOCIHARMONIE

"I have always admired his attitude, his virtuosity, his powerful expressiveness but most of all his sincere love for music."

- Jean Ferrandis

"[Thomaz Tavares and Rieko Tsuchida] delivered a concert with a program that was not only original, but magnificently well interpreted."

- Salle Cortot

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24/25
Calendar

UPCOMING SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Upcoming performances with Ensemble IMAGO, Orchestre Helios, and Orchestra de Chambre Nouvelle Europe,

Recitals at Les Musicales Mortagne et Perche, Festival Neuvy Sautour, the DiMenna Center, Kawai Showroom, and Louisiana Flute Society.

Masterclasses and workshops in California, Texas, Colorado, and Louisiana.

August 12-16 Concerts in Normandy for the chamber music festival Les Harmonies du Perche

August - September Texas Masterlclass recital Tour

October 5, 6, 7, 8 Vivaldi Concerto tour with the Orchestre de Chambre de Provins.

January - June : Teaching at Cal State Fullerton, masterclass/recitals in Texas, Colorado, and California. Guest artist at Louisiana flute society and LA Flute association

Recital at Kawai Showroom June 26th

Media

LISTEN TO THOMAZ

Here you'll find videos and audio of Thomaz performing solo and alongside his colleagues in chamber music ensembles/orchestras.
There is also a dedicated gallery space for headshots and snaps of him at work.

WATCH + LISTEN

WATCH & LISTEN

Click to listen to the Uebayashi Sonata, Bach’s triple concerto, world premieres of new compositions with colleagues from Ensemble IMAGO, and more.

GALLERY

Photography by Kenneth Edward’s, Abel Esbenshade, Kadia Ouabi, Scott Pool, and Alexandre Moravcsik

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Touch

CONTACT THOMAZ

Thomaz is available for professional engagements throughout the year - please get in contact for information on availability, performances, and teaching.

C O N T A C T

Let's get social! Connect with Mr. Tavares on Facebook and Instagram. I'm not on Facebook very often but I do use Instagram to document my practice, concerts, and life. Would love to see you there!

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#flute #harp #classicalmusic #meditation #thais #massenet

“Jean-Pierre,’ said Poulenc, ‘you know you’ve always wanted me to write a sonata for flute and piano? Well, I’m going to,’ he said. ‘And the best thing is that the Americans will pay for it!”

Extract from our finale for the festival @musicales_mortagne_perche
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#flute #poulenc #piano #chambermusic #classicalmusic #marchingband #orchestra

Pre-performance ritual in the most inspiring setting. These final precious moments with Poulenc before I’m called to the stage at this magnificent Normandy manoir to perform for the @musicales_mortagne_perche . Every note matters, every breath counts!
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#flute #classicalmusic #poulenc #normandy #ritual

Jet lagged, under tempo, and a phone that goes on strike 🪧 how apropos 🇫🇷
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#flute #piano #classicalmusic

🌞 As Paris heats up, so does the concert season! Upcoming month :

JUNE 21 - FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE Week:
Flute & Guitar with @powersurgeee
Place Vendôme, Paris

Flute & Piano with @pmeirelles at
Studio Gobelins, Paris @studiopianogobelins

JUNE 25 -
Flute & Piano with @rieko_tsuchida
La Mélodieuse, South of France

JUNE 26
Flute & Piano Recital with @rieko_tsuchida
Kawai Piano Showroom, Paris @kawaipianosfr

JUNE 28
Flute & Harp with @oksana_sidyagina
Festival Neuvy-Sautour, Bourgogne @nnhfestival

JUNE 29 - on the road with @ensembleimago
Flute & Piano with @rieko_tsuchida
Les Musicales Mortagne et Perche, Normandy

June 30th : @groupmuse TBD

July 2-4th : FLUTE REVERIE with @juleekimwalker and @jameshallflute

July 16th : Fauré Sonata with @__ruta for @stradcopy ‘s Trinkets and Grigri

July 20th - flute and harpsichord baroque recital with @iori.hayashi.1 at Église Notre Dame du Travail

📸: @stradcopy

No pedal? No problem! ✌🏼

Back during my student days our teacher would have an ongoing challenge that whenever he would clap 👏 while we were playing in lessons, we had to instantly switch to singing : in time, in tune, and in style! It’s a great exercise and a good safety net just in case 😅

Prokofiev sonata run through with @suse320 for @mima_works ‘ concert last month.
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#flute #piano #musicianproblems #classicalmusic #woodwind #marchingband #orchestra

🎼 Practice tip: borrow from the masters🖊️

On todays menu, Smetana’s “The Moldau” 🌊The flowing, river-like phrases in this piece create perfect templates for scale exercises. Here’s why this works:

✅ You’re still getting finger agility and evenness
✅ You’re developing phrasing, dynamics, and musical line
✅ Your brain stays active instead of going on autopilot

How to apply it :
1. Take the melodic contour from your favorite piece
2. Apply it to your daily scales
3. Focus on the groove, on the “swing” of the phrase, not just technical accuracy.

The result? Scales that sound like music, not finger exercises. Your technique improves AND you’re (secretly) working on musicianship.

Try it: What piece could we borrow patterns from for tomorrow’s warm-up?

🎥: @nicholasflute

#flutelife #scalepractice #smetana #themoldau #musicalwarmup #flutepractice #classicalmusic #practicetips #musicianlife #flutelessons

❤️‍🔥The moment you can feel the energy in the room shift

This particular passage is where Mendelssohn shows his real genius, the way he builds tension, the interweaving voices, and the way everything just explodes into pure musical ecstasy. It’s chamber music in its most raw form, the kind of moment that reminds you why you fell in love with music in the first place.

🎥 : @kadiaouabi
🏛️ : @fondationusa
🎙️: @legatosato
🎻: @andrewbriggscello

#classicalmusic #mendelssohn #marchingband #orchestra #chambermusic

POV : You just had your espresso ☕️ before teaching lessons.
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#flute #piano #mozart #classicalmusic #marchingband #orchestra

The hard hitting journalism your mother warned you about.

Trills tutorial Part 3 : left hand pinky trills without cheating 😆 another extract from lessons at @csuf_flutestudio

🎥: @nicholasflute
#flute #marchingband #orchestra #classicalmusic #musicschool

Fun fact: Syrinx was meant for alto flute, sunglasses, and unresolved feelings. 🌞

POV : You’ve taught them all year, but can you recognize them blind ?
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#flute #musicschool #orchestra #classicalmusic #marchingband

📍 going to leave this pinned here

1: Putting it all together at Palais Royale.
My setup has been shaped by instinct, a bit of luck, and a lot of listening, not necessarily to sound, but to what I wanted to learn from the instrument.

2: Kissing Mermaids 🧜‍♀️ .
This is a Faulisi Salvatore headjoint from the early 90s ( like me 😆) back when the company still had a craftsman engraving each one by hand. It’s the same model Sophie Cherrier plays, and I stumbled across it completely by accident. It was buried in a used shop’s inventory in Paris. Tarnished, mismatched, and too thick to even try properly on my gold body. But something about it called to me. I gave it a blow on a borrowed silver body, and bought it on the spot. Later, I had it re-fitted to the gold body, and since then its taught me everything I wanted to learn from it.

3 : The body from Indianapolis 🏎️
( the French always incredulously remark “the pad guy!?!”) This is my Straubinger 14-k body. I was lucky enough to meet David Straubinger himself and discover that not only he made fabulous pads, but a select few flutes per year as well! I chose this for the reliability of the scale, the natural resonance, and yes, the half-offset G is as charming to play as it is to look at.
Fun fact: it’s the same model Jasmine Choi plays!

📸 All photos shot by the fabulous @stradcopy
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#flute #flutelyfe #flûtiste #faulisi #straubingerflutes

Summer antics in the French countryside with @lesharmoniesduperche
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#faure #flute #piano #harrypotter #johnwilliams #classicalmusic #marchingband #orchestra

🎻 Violin trills and a guilty confession towards the end of the video…
🎶Vivaldi “La Notte”
🪈 Flute lessons at @csuf_flutestudio
🎥 and editing : @nicholasflute
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#flute #concerto #classicalmusic #marchingband #orchestra #trills

What goes on during flute lessons at @csuf_flutestudio ?
🎶: Vivaldi “La Notte” Concerto in G minor
🎥 : @nicholasflute

#flute #concerto #trills #classicalmusic #calstatefullerton

✨ Exciting news! The new limited edition Thomaz action figure is now available and comes with a mini-flute, impeccable style, and a penchant for Negronis🍸

( Louie the Dachsund sold separately. )

🏔️ “Play without pain, and actually get good while you do it? What a bargain” beautiful notes from my student @daniflutie on my Lecture/Workshop yesterday featuring THE MOUNTAIN MAN ( le montagnard )

🐊 Louisiana Flute Society Festival + Mini Masterclass Tour 🪈

Huge thanks to Jiweon Ryu and Brianne Little for having me as a clinician and performer—congratulations on an amazing festival! It was an honor to lead a French flute music clinic and connect with the fantastic Louisiana flute community.

I had a blast playing the “rigatoni” with Stephen Clark, soaring up to high E’s with Brianne, and working with their wonderful students in masterclasses. Such a joy to reconnect with Carol Wincenc and Ethan Lynn. Grateful for the warm welcome—can’t wait to come back!

#flute #flutefestival #masterclasstour #louisianaflute

✨ Rigoletto from the wings at the Louisiana Flute Society Festival! 🪈
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#flute #classicalmusic #doppler #rigoletto #rigatoni

Souvenirs of a golden Provençal dusk, the scent of lavender thick in the air, and Uebayashi’s Sonata Flore amongst the birds. Music in full bloom at the enchanted @lepavillondegalon . 🌾

#flute #harp #classicalmusic #beautifulmelodiesproject

🌬️ YOU DONT NEED CIRCULAR BREATHING
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Here’s a short excerpt from my masterclass at Cal State Fullerton @ csufmusic a few months ago - we were discussing the need of having a go to exercise for practicing your long phrases with a very small thin airstream, and this is my personal favorite!
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OF COURSE you can learn circular breathing, but make it a plus, not a necessity 😁
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#flute #flauta #circularbreathing #masterclass #flutelessons #flutelife #reichert #breathing

🎈 The eternal flute party anthem.
#flute #flauta #doppler #classicalmusic #recital

🕵🏻‍♂️ Covert Operation: Surprise Dr. Walker’s Students!

Last fall, I had the unique pleasure of teaching @juleekimwalker ‘s students at @etamumusic and I just fell in love with Texas 🤠

So when she reached out a few months ago with a top-secret plan: a surprise return for a joint recital, studio party, and a weekend of masterclasses and teaching with the incredible @etamuflutes crew, I could not refuse. The Pattons dressed me up as a building inspector and we were able to sneak past the students to get to me to the green room, the rest was history.

Thank you to my Texas family for the adventure and shenanigans. Maybe I’ll see you soon 👀

🥁Beatbox 101 with Thomaz.
Last week my students asked me ( while teaching PROKOFIEV) if I could teach them how to beatbox on the flute 🪈 . I’m sure @pattillostyle or @_annie_wu_ would have done the subject more justice, but I think we got the fundamentals down. I also forgot the word for SNARE and called it open high hat. Thank you to @camera.voyage who was sitting in on my lessons and caught this moment and to @cribble_lee for being a good sport. Stay tuned for beatbox 201.
#flute #masterclass #beatboxing #musicschool

🔊 A good diminuendo al niente feels like throwing yourself into the abyss. Faure’s “Chanson d’amour” with @oksana_sidyagina ( blocked by someone’s head) at @conservatoiresr_paris
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#flute #harp #chambermusic #classicalmusic

Hello flute hive 🐝 ~in between the lips articulation~, otherwise referred to as “ French tonguing” due to a passing comment by Marcel Moyse in De la Sonorité, and popularized by Rampal masterclasses in the 70s - and now a staple of the Suzuki method - I avoided this at all costs as a teenager, and then when I moved to France no one actually taught me this explicitly but I saw flutists everywhere doing it…and in a lesson with Magali Mosnier I saw how beautifully she used it so I decided to give it another go…now it’s my go to, but I still have a hard time convincing my students to start using it.

What are your experiences with this type of articulation? Would love to hear your thoughts 💭

#flute #articulation #flutist #flutelyfe #100daysofpractice

When the youngest music critic steals the show 👧🏻

✨Exciting News✨

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at the School of Music at Cal State Fullerton as the visiting flute professor for the spring semester. I’ll be stepping in while the wonderful Jean Ferrandis @jean_ferrandis_flutist is on sabbatical and am so excited to support the program and work with such talented students and faculty.

I look forward to connecting with fellow musicians, collaborating on new projects, and making the most of this opportunity before going back to France - so if you’re part of the @csufmusic community or in the LA/OC area, give me a shout!

📸: @stradcopy

Last week at Les Après-Midi Musicaux d’Eaubonne chamber series, @rieko_tsuchida and I had the privilege of performing in the stunning home of Eric Pavsic. Our program featured works by Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Brahms, Schubert, and Sato Matsui’s @legatosato new work “Six Ancient Tankas” for flute and piano.

We were honored to be dressed and styled by fashion designer Eddie Corps @eddiecorps in pieces from his latest collection and are so grateful to our @ensembleimago family for their support. Thank you to Kenneth Edwards @stradcopy for capturing the beauty of the event—and to Eric for generously opening not only his home but also his incredible wine cellar!🍷

🎙️ Recording weekend in the Gers 🇫🇷 with @__ruta and @stradcopy - paintings in video by @marc_dalessio - 💿 single coming out soon!

☕️⚜️ Artist portrait photoshoot share with images by @stradcopy 📸
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#photoshoot #classicalmusician #flutist #flautist #笛子
#flauta #flute #فلوت #বাঁশি #флейта #ਬਾਂਸਰੀ #フルート

👁️ 👁️ The Hidden Talent : 25 pedal changes in 10 seconds.

Rehearsing at @conservatoiresr_paris
#flute #harp #classicalmusic #recital #flauta #harpe

🌶️ Cooking up a cheeky encore for those of you coming tonight! 🫶

📸 new season photoshoot with @stradcopy !
If you have a favorite, let us know! 🪗 🎠

“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
- Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Guest Artist recital at @tamucmusic with Alber Chien.
#flute #piano #classicalmusic #tchaikovsky #recital

🎶 “BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IS AVAILABLE TO YOU NOW” - I had SUCH a fantastic time at Colleyville Highschool and Middle school giving a #tmea masterclass, coaching students, talking about life as a musician and having a blast hearing Josh’s wonderfully talented music students play. Bonus points for performing trios with Josh and Martin Godoy and meeting Christine Cleary! Huge thank you to @joshsmith.tx for the invitation, you are one of a kind! 🌟

🤠 WANTED : The fugitive flute tour starts next week! Dead or alive, l’ll be kicking off my first masterclass recital tour in Texas with lots of great stops along the way!
September 19th : Baylor University @baylorflutestudio
September 20th : Tarleton State University @tarletonflutes
September 24th : University of Texas Arlington @hlchiasson22
September 25th : Southeastern Oklahoma @flutistminheesophiakim
September 27th: Texas Christian University @tcu_flute_studio
September 29th : Dallas Public Library Recital
September 30th : Texas A&M *Commerce Masterclass @tamucflutes
October 1st : @groupmuse recital
October 2nd : New York fundraiser recital with @rieko_tsuchida

#flute #masterclass #tour #texas

Some sight reading sessions go better than others…

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THOMAZ TAVARES

FLUTIST

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"A polished performer, Tavares offered an expressive performance that embraced the work's lyrical and virtuoso demands, his pure, direct sound never wavering from the mission at hand".

- THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE

BIO

LEARN MORE

24/25 Calendar

UPCOMING SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Media

LISTEN TO THOMAZ

Here you'll find videos and audio of Thomaz performing solo and alongside his colleagues in chamber music ensembles/orchestras. There is also a dedicated gallery space for headshots and snaps of him at work.

WATCH + LISTEN

Click to listen to the Uebayashi Sonata, Bach’s triple concerto, world premieres of new compositions with colleagues from Ensemble IMAGO, and more.

GALLERY

Photography by Kenneth Edward’s, Abel Esbenshade, Kadia Ouabi, Scott Pool, and Alexandre Moravcsik

Get in

Touch

CONTACT THOMAZ

Thomaz is available for professional engagements throughout the year - please get in contact for information on availability, performances, and teaching.

Let's get social! Connect with Mr. Tavares on Facebook and Instagram. I'm not on Facebook very often but I do use Instagram to document my practice, concerts, and life. Would love to see you there!

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THOMAZ TAVARES

To be in touch about professional inquiries, contact Mr Tavares HERE (link to contact page).

24/25
Calendar

Here you'll find videos and audio of Thomaz performing solo and alongside his colleagues in chamber music ensembles/orchestras.
There is also a dedicated gallery space for headshots and snaps of him at work.