MIGUEL ANGEL TAMARIT
Born in Valencia, he graduated from the Valencia Conservatory of Music, furthering his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, with Professor Alfred Prinz and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Dasrstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, where he received clarinet classes. and chamber music with professors Alfred Prinz and Ernst Ottensamer.
In 1990, he founded the Johannes Brahms Trio and received a scholarship from the European Union in 1994 for the Kaleidoscope Project, he expanded his studies in Chamber Music with professors F. Zadra and P. Vernikov, performing concerts in numerous Spanish and European auditoriums. Likewise, he participates in numerous concerts with the Turiae Camerata, Silvestre String Quartet, Resident Quartet of Salzburg, 20th Century Music Society, Quintet de Vent of Valencia and String Quartet of the European Symphony Orchestra.
Founding member of the Zaragoza Conservatory Orchestra, he has collaborated with the Valencia Municipal Orchestra. In 1990 he filled the position of Clarinet Soloist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Las Palmas, Canary Islands and in 1999 until 2003 clarinet soloist of the European Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with musicians such as Josep Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Cristian Florea, Rasvan Neculai, Bela Kovacs, Lluis Claret, Teresa Berganza, etc.
He teaches numerous master classes in various Spanish conservatories and since 2005 in Germany, performing concerts in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, as a soloist and with chamber music groups. He specializes in the interpretation of original clarinets from the 18th century and collaborates with classical instrument groups such as the Bocherini Trio, the Salamanca Baroque Orchestra and founded in 2003 “Ritornello Quintet”, a wind quintet and quartet with Pianoforte and original 18th century instruments.
Jury Member of the prestigious competition “The International Competition. Three Generations of Mozart" in Hagen, Germany and professor of clarinet at the Clarinet Chair at the University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany, since 2000 he has been regularly invited to the most prestigious European festivals, performing in countries such as France, Italy , Switzerland, Germany, Czechia, Norway, Switzerland and Finland. Among them the subscription concerts for the Salzburg Mozart Society in Turin, Emäsalo Music Festival and Porvoon Festival in Finland and Grieg in Bergen, Norway.
Since 2004 he has performed chamber music concerts with the Szymanowski Quartet (Germany) and the Sestetto Stradivari (Italy) and the String Quintet of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the clarinet quintets of Mozart, Weber and Brahms, the concerts with the Ventus Quintet and the recitals of French and German music with the pianist Kei Hikichi, as well as the recitals of Italian music with the pianist Renata Benvegnu, an activity carried out in the best national and international concert halls with public and critical recognition.
In 2019, he is elected “Yamaha Artist”,
Tamarit plays with Yamaha model YCL-CSG III clarinets.
