The French pianist Sarah Tysman performs as a accompanist with Maria Bengtsson (CD with songs by Richard Strauss), Vera-Lotte Boecker, Anna Prohaska, Wiebke Lehmkuhl and Benjamin Bernheim as well as regularly with Michael Volle, Piotr Beczala and Rolando Villazon. She has given concerts at La Scala in Milan, the Palais Garnier in Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, the Zurich Opera House, the Frankfurt Opera, the Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, London's Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein Graz, the National Philharmonic Orchestra Warsaw, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Oetker-Halle Bielefeld, the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, the Verbier Festival and the Wiesbaden May Festival. She has performed with countertenor Cameron Shahbazi and percussionist Adélaide Ferrière in Deutsche Grammophon's “stage+music” series.
From 2020 to 2022, she was head of music at the Vienna State Opera. She held this position at the Salzburg Festival from 2012 to 2016 and returned to the festival in 2017 for Aribert Reimann's King Lear, in 2018 for Hans Werner Henze's Bassarids and in 2024 as Bertrand de Billy's assistant for Hamlet. She worked on Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival in 2023. She has also had permanent engagements at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Opernhaus Zürich. As a solo repetiteur and musical assistant, Sarah Tysman has also performed at the Berlin State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Opéra National de Paris and the Bayreuth Festival, among others. She has worked with conductors such as Daniele Gah, Philippe Jordan, Kirill Petrenko and Franz Welser-Möst.
She completed her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in her home city of Paris and at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. She then studied chamber music with Pierre-Laurent Aimard before devoting herself to the lied repertoire with Hartmut Höll, among others. She has performed as a soloist under the musical direction of Kirill Petrenko, including Grieg's Piano Concerto and Scriabin's Prometeus at the Komische Oper Berlin and Petrushka at the Berlin Philharmonie, and has recently worked with the Berliner Philharmoniker for concert series in Berlin and the USA, at the Musikverein Vienna and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. As part of the Biennale 2025, she took over the musical direction for the performance of the music to the film All the Beauty and the Bloodshet by the Soundwalk Collective as part of the Nan Goldin exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and performed as pianist in the Philharmonie's chamber music hall for the concert Tipping Points. Fourteen ways to describe climate change, which included the premiere of Gregor A. Mayrhofer's composition of the same title. Sarah Tysman has been a professor of vocal repertoire at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2016.
