"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. Furthermore, his talents as an accompanist for the voice on the flute are particularly promising." (  VociHarmonie )

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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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Born in New York and raised in Brazil, flutist Thomaz Tavares is currently based in Paris, where he leads an active solo, chamber, and orchestral performance career. He is co-founder of Ensemble IMAGO, a multidisciplinary chamber music ensemble in residence at the Fondation des Etats-Unis. He is flutist with the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe under the baton of Maestro Nicolas Krauze, and is an occasional guest performer with Ensemble Calliopée, VociHarmonie, and the Open Chamber Orchestra of Paris. Tavares was previously the professor of flute at the Conservatoire Provinois in the medieval town of Provins, as well as interim at the Conservatoire Jean Baptiste Lully. An active and devoted pedagogue, Tavares has given numerous recitals, lectures, and masterclasses throughout France, the United States, and Brazil. For the 2024–25 season, he will serve as guest adjunct professor at Texas A&M-Commerce and guest professor at Cal State Fullerton.

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Most recently, Thomaz completed a Masterclass tour in Texas, served as Guest Artist for the Los Angeles Flute Association and Louisiana Flute Society festivals, went on tour with Vivaldi Concertos in France, and performed a series of recitals at DiMenna center in New York, Petit Palais in Paris, and Galleria Lafayette in Annecy. 

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Praised for his “innate sense of musical aesthetics in all styles'' by Vociharmonie and for his “polished, lyrical and virtuoso” playing by the Virginia Gazette, Tavares has made numerous solo and chamber appearances at the historical Salles Cortot in Paris and the Château de Fontainebleau. He has performed at the Musicales Mortagne et Perche, Festival d’Auvers sur Oise, Journées de Ravel, Harmonies du Perche, the Festival de Fontainebleau, the Melodieuse in Luberon, the Dartington Summer Festival, and Talis Sarajevo, to name a few.

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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. He moved to Paris in order to study under the tutelage of the renowned international 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 was a recipient of the 2019 Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship at the Foundation des États-Unis, for which he undertook a dual performance research on the musical repertory of the French Belle Époque and the compositions of Yuko Uebayashi under advisorship of the composer herself. This collaboration led to multiple invitations from the composer herself to perform and record Uebayashi’s music in the south of France. 

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

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