"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)

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"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." (  VociHarmonie )

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"Thomaz Tavares's rich, expressive playing and intelligent programming are matched by his remarkable stage presence. His brief, warm introductions create immediate intimacy with the audience, transforming each performance into a true moment of connection."​ ( Les Harmonies du Perche))

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

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"[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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Praised for his “innate sense of musical aesthetics in all styles” (Vociharmonie) and for his “polished, lyrical, and virtuoso” playing (Virginia Gazette), Thomaz Tavares is a Paris-based flutist with an active international career as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer.

 

A recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship and the prestigious Diplôme de Concertiste, Tavares is co-founder of Ensemble IMAGO, a multidisciplinary chamber ensemble in artistic residence at the Fondation des États-Unis. He is the flutist of the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe under Nicolas Krauze and performs regularly with Orchestre Hélios, Ensemble Calliopée, and the Open Chamber Orchestra of Paris.

 

Tavares is a passionate educator. He served as flute professor at the Conservatoire de Provins and as interim professor at the Conservatoire Jean-Baptiste Lully. He is co-founder of the summer masterclass academy  Flute Rêverie and has given recitals and masterclasses across France, the U.S., and Brazil. In the 2024–25 season, he serves as guest adjunct professor at Texas A&M-Commerce (fall 2024) and guest professor at Cal State Fullerton (spring 2025).

 

For three consecutive years, Tavares was invited as a guest artist for the Festival de Fontainebleau, where he performed concerts, created musical guided tours of the castle, and produced and recorded an educational web series detailing the musical history of the castle. He has also appeared at festivals including the Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise, Journées de Ravel, Harmonies du Perche, the Melodieuse in Luberon, Dartington Summer Festival, Musicales de Mortagne et Perche, and Talis Sarajevo, and in venues such as Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Petit Palais, DiMenna Center, and Château de Fontainebleau. As part of his Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship, Tavares conducted a performance research on the musical repertoire of the French Belle Époque, as well as the flute works of composer Yuko Uebayashi, under whose mentorship he worked. This collaboration led to multiple invitations from the composer herself to perform and record Uebayashi’s music in the south of France. 

 

Recent highlights include a Vivaldi concerto tour in France, a recital with pianist Rieko Tsuchida at New York's DiMenna Center, performances as guest artist for the Los Angeles Flute Association and Louisiana Flute Society festivals, recitals at Petit Palais in Paris and Gallerie Lafayette in Annecy, and  U.S. masterclass tours across the Midwest, Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, and California.

 

Tavares holds his Bachelor's degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was the recipient of the Premier Young Artist Scholarship. For his graduate studies he moved to Paris in order to study under the tutelage of the renowned soloist Jean Ferrandis at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, where he obtained his Diplôme Supérieur d’Execution with unanimous distinction from the jury and in 2020, followed by his terminal degree the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste. 

 

Tavares performs on a Straubinger 14k flute and a Faulisi headjoint.

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