About Sarah
Following her beginnings as a soloist, French pianist Sarah Tysman turned her attention to lieder and opera, and has worked closely with singers ever since. She is Head of Music Staff of the Vienna State Opera and since 2016 she has been Professor of Vocal Repertoire at Berlin University of the Arts, alongside which she continues to be in demand as a lieder accompanist and chamber music partner.
From her student days in her native Paris, and later at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg, Sarah has always trodden an alternative path to conventional pianists. Having laid the foundations of her training with Henri Barda and Grigory Gruzman, she studied chamber music with Pierre-Laurent Aimard before specialising in lieder repertoire with Anne Grappotte and Hartmut Höll. She took part in masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lazar Berman, György Kurtág and Elisabeth Leonskaja.
Her passion for working with singers led her to engagements at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she worked closely with Kirill Petrenko, and also at Zurich Opera. From 2012 – 2016 she was head of music for all opera productions at the Salzburg Festival, and has returned regularly as a guest for individual productions ever since.
As vocal coach and musical assistant, Sarah has been a guest at Berlin State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Bayreuth Festival, Paris National Opera, Stockholm Royal Opera House, and has worked with conductors such as Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Philippe Jordan, Ingo Metzmacher, Kirill Petrenko, Franz Welser-Möst, and with many of the greatest singers and directors of our time.
Sarah Tysman has performed at Milan’s La Scala, Zurich Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Dortmund Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Verbier Festival, London’s Wigmore Hall and Zurich Tonhalle. Musical partners have included Angelika Kirchschlager, Anna Prohaska, Maria Bengtsson, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Rolando Villazon, Piotr Beczala, and Michael Volle.
As a soloist, Sarah was an award winner at the Newport International Competition for Young Pianists, the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg, the International Maj Lind Piano Competition, and the San Sebastian International Piano Competition. Furthermore, she held a scholarship from DAAD and the Fondation Natexis/ Groupement des banques populaires. Under the direction of Kirill Petrenko she performed Grieg’s piano concerto and Skrjabin’s Prometeus at the Komische Oper Berlin, and Petruschka at the Berlin Philharmonie.
Highlights of the 2017/18 season are a new CD of Richard Strauss Lieder with soprano Maria Bengtsson on the Dabringhaus und Grimm label, and lieder recitals with Piotr Beczala in venues including the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona and at the Opéra Paris.
In summer 2018, Sarah Tysman will once again be head of music at the Salzburg Festival for the opera “The Bassarids“ by Hans Werner Henze, under the direction of Kent Nagano.
NEWS
Upcoming concerts
May 22, Berlin – with Maria Bengtsson
May 31, Vienna – with Piotr Beczala
August 04, Elmau – with Rufus Wainwright & Danielle De Niese
Vienna
Sarah Tysman is Head of Music Staff (Studienleiterin) at the Vienna State Opera since 2020.
NEWS
Upcoming concerts
May 22, Berlin – with Maria Bengtsson
May 31, Vienna – with Piotr Beczala
August 04, Elmau – with Rufus Wainwright & Danielle De Niese
Vienna
Sarah Tysman is Head of Music Staff (Studienleiterin) at the Vienna State Opera since 2020.
Calendar
UPCOMING
May 2022
22/05/2022
Berlin
31/05/2022
Wien
Recital with Piotr Beczala
Wiener Staatsoper
Aug 2022
04/08/2022
Elmau
Songs, Arien und Duette von Wainwright bis Rodgers & Hammerstein, von Bizet bis Leonard Cohen
Rufus Wainwright
Danielle de Niese
Sarah Tysman
Schloss Elmau
ARCHIVES
Mar 2022
01/03/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
Feb 2022
26/02/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
21/02/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
03/02/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
03/02/2022
Barcelona
Recital with Piotr Beczala
Teatro Liceu
Jan 2022
31/01/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
28/01/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
24/01/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
14/01/2022 - 04/04/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
13/01/2022
Wien
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Stephen Hopkins
Sarah Tysman
Oct 2021
24/10/2021
Wien
Jun 2021
22/06/2021
Berlin – POSTPONED
Recital with Maria Bengtsson
Komische Oper Berlin
May 2021
15/05/2021
Barcelona
Recital with Piotr Beczala
Palau de la Musica
04/05/2021
Las Palmas
Recital with Piotr Beczala
Teatro Pérez Galdós
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Apr 2021
28/04/2021
Oviedo
Recital with Piotr Beczala
Auditorio Principe Felipe
Mar 2021
14/03/2021
Wien – Cancelled
Virginie Verrez
Evgeny Solodovnikov
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Gustav Mahler-Saal, Staatsoper Wien I Link
Jan 2021
26/01/2021
Wien – Cancelled
Vera-Lotte Boecker, Sopran
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
@Gläserner Saal, Musikverein I Link
Jul 2020
May 2020
29/05/2020
Frankfurt
Maria Bengtsson, Sopran
Cecelia Hall, Mezzosopran
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Oper Frankfurt I Link
Jan 2020
14/01/2020
Liederabend mit Maria Bengtsson, Oper Frankfurt
Opernhaus Frankfurt
Maria Bengtsson, Sopran
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Dec 2019
Nov 2019
15/11/2019
Liederabend mit Maria Bengtsson, Plansee Konzerte
01/11/2019
Liederabend mit Piotr Beczala, Girona
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Auditorio de Girona
Oct 2019
29/10/2019
Liederabend mit Piotr Beczala, Zaragoza
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Palacio de Congresos, Sala Mozart
26/10/2019
Liederabend mit Piotr Beczala, Sevilla
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Teatro de la Maestranza
23/10/2019
Liederabend mit Piotr Beczala, Coruna
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Teatro Colón
20/10/2019
Liederabend mit Piotr Beczala, Valencia
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Palau de la Musica de Valencia, Sala Principal
20/10/2019 - 29/10/2019
Konzerte mit Piotr Beczala, Spanien
Palau de la Musica de Valencia
Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla
Teatro Principal de Alicante
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Aug 2018
16/08/2018
Salzburger Festspiele 2018 – “Bassarids”
Kent Nagano, Musikalische Leitung
Krzysztof Warlikowski, Regie
07/08/2018
Recital Schloss Elmau
Wagner, Strauss
Gabriela Scherer, Mezzosopran
Michael Volle, Bariton
Sarah Tysman, Klavier
Jul 2018
08/07/2018
Recital with Piotr Beczala
Songs by Schumann, Karlowicz, Dvorák, Rachmaninow
Opéra Paris
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May 2018
06/05/2018
Recital with Maria Bengtsson
R. Strauss/ H. Wolf/ J. Sibelius/ E. Grieg/ T. Rangström
Wiesbaden
Feb 2018
Jan 2018
Nov 2017
04/11/2017
Recital with Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Brahms
Ev.-Luth.Kirche, Oldenburg
Oct 2017
Sep 2017
11/09/2017 - 13/09/2017
Aufnahme Strauss Lieder
Aug 2017
20/08/2017
Salzburger Festspiele 2017
Salzburger Festspiele 2017
Studienleiterin
“Lear” von Aribert Reimann
Simon Stone, Regie
Franz Welser-Möst, Musikalische Leitung
Jun 2016
Jun 2015
14/06/2015
Recital Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
Rufus Wainwright & Angelika Kirchschlager
Forum, Ludwigsburg
May 2015
07/05/2015
Konzert mit Angelika Kirchschlager & Rufus Wainwright
Jazzfest Wien
Wiener Staatsoper
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Press
“In warmem unterschwelligen Pathos, jedoch nie dominant begleitete einfühlsam Sarah Tysman am Flügel, unterstrich mit besonderem Gespür die schlichte Lyrik…”
Online-Merker, 29.05.2020
Online-Merker, 14.01.2020
“Poesie und Ausdruck brachte dafür die so souverän wie sensibel agierende Pianistin Sarah Tysman ins Spiel.” (NZZ, 2015)
“…ein Hymnus auf das Leben als Fest und eine Verabredung für eine Nacht zu zweit, sind bei Maria Bengtsson und Sarah Tysman, eine mühelose Höhe, sind Leichtigkeit und Kraft zu bewundern, ein duftiger Halbschatten des Timbres, von Sarah Tysman am Klavier ganz rücksichtsvoll behandelt, dazu lange Bögen und großer Atem.” SWR 2, CD-Tipp
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