Sarah Tysman

The French pianist Sarah Tysman performs regularly as a song accompanist with Maria Bengtsson, Benjamin Bernheim, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Anna Prohaska, Rolando Villazón and Michael Volle, and has appeared at venues including La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Zurich Opera House and Tonhalle, the Frankfurt Opera, the Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Wigmore Hall in London, and at the Verbier Festival and the International May Festival in Wiesbaden.

Highlights of the 2022/23 season have included song recitals with Rolando Villazón at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, with Piotr Beczała in Vienna, with Benjamin Bernheim in Strasbourg, with Maria Bengtsson in Gothenburg and with Sondra Radvanovsky at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

From 2020 to 2022 she was head of the music staff at the Vienna State Opera. She held the same position at the Salzburg Festival from 2012 to 2016, and returned in 2017 for Reimann’s Lear and in 2018 for Henze’s The Bassarids. She has also been a staff member at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Zurich Opera House. She has worked at the Berlin State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Paris Opéra and the Bayreuth Festival as a freelance répétiteur and musical assistant, and with conductors including Bertrand de Billy, Daniele Gatti, Philippe Jordan and Franz Welser-Möst. Most recently, she was head of music staff for Die Frau ohne Schatten at the 2023 Baden-Baden Easter Festival.

Sarah Tysman’s concert appearances under Kirill Petrenko include Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Skryabin’s Prometheus at the Komische Oper, and Stravinsky’s Petrushka at the Berlin Philharmonie. She has collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic on concert series in Berlin and in the USA.

In 2017 she and Maria Bengtsson recorded a CD of Lieder by Richard Strauss. She has also appeared with the countertenor Cameron Shabazi at the streaming platform STAGE+ for Deutsche Grammophon.

Sarah Tysman studied at the Conservatoire in her home city of Paris and at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. She went on to study chamber music with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and to work on song repertory with Hartmut Höll, among others. Since 2016 Sarah Tysman is professor of vocal repertory at the Berlin University of the Arts.