When Tedi Papavrami arrived in France at a very young age, he discovered a country and a culture that were totally foreign to him. His natural curiosity and his need to tame the French language so that he could make the country his own, as well as his great loneliness at the start, led him to devour books, always in French: Stendhal, Proust, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Kafka... A curiosity that transcends borders, combined with intellectual and artistic demands that enable him to bridge the gap between his native domain and other horizons, set this rare performer apart in the world of music.
So it was only natural that in 2000, after the death of Albanian translator J. Vrioni, he should take up the torch of translating the works of Ismaïl Kadaré, whom he had known as a child in Albania. This escape into the literary world also became for him a means of "existing professionally for the first time outside the violin". In 2013, he went on to write "Fugue pour Violon Seul", published by Robert Laffont. Unanimously acclaimed by the press, this autobiographical account recounts his journey as a child prodigy in Albania and his passage to the West, towards freedom. In 2003, Tedi was spotted on a television set by actress Jeanne Moreau, and played a violinist Danceny alongside Catherine Deneuve, Ruppert Everett and Nastassja Kinski in director Josée Dayan's adaptation of Laclos's "Liaisons Dangereuses".
This diversification would not have been possible, however, without a singular precociousness and concentration on the violin from a very early age. The instrument, which has always been part of his life, was passed on to him at the age of 5 by his father, a brilliant teacher with extensive experience. Tedi's progress was rapid: three years later he was playing Sarasate's Airs bohémiens in concert, with orchestra. At the age of eleven, he gave a public performance of Paganini's Concerto No. 1 with the
cadenza by Emile Sauret.
In 1982, in Albania, a country cut off from the rest of the world, flautist Alain Marion arrived by extraordinary chance for a concert. He spotted the young virtuoso and invited him to Paris on a French government scholarship. He studied with Pierre Amoyal at the C.N.S.M. in Paris for 4 years.
This period was punctuated by appearances on television programmes such as "Le Grand Echiquier" and "Dimanche Martin", as well as numerous concerts.
At the end of his student career, at the age of 15, Tedi pursued his musical and instrumental development alone.
his musical and instrumental development. Shortly before, he had fled with his parents from the communist regime in Albania to France. Tedi and his parents left Paris to avoid the Albanian embassy officials looking for them, and settled near Bordeaux, where they were able to establish themselves with the help of close friends.

Having won several prizes, T. Papavrami began a career as a soloist and chamber musician in the 1990s. He has since collaborated as a soloist with conductors such as K. Sanderling, A. Jordan, E. Krivine, M. Honeck, F.X. Roth, Th. Fischer, G. Varga, M. Aeschenbacher, etc. In chamber music, he was a member of the Schumann Quartet for nine years, and has performed in concert and on recordings with partners such as Philippe Bianconi, Nelson Goerner, Martha Argerich, Maria Joao Pires, Viktoria Mullova, Garry Hofmann, Marc Coppey, Paul Meyer and Lawrence Power.
Since 1990, Tedi's artistic activity has been punctuated by numerous recordings. Released in 2014, his recording of Eugène Ysaÿe's 6 sonatas for solo violin and the sonata for two violins by the same composer, with violinist Svetlin Roussev, received the Diapason d'Or and Shock of the Year awards from Diapason and Classica at the same time. Also a transcriber, he has recorded his transcriptions of 12 sonatas by Scarlatti as well as Bach's Fantasy and Fugue BWV 542, originally written for organ, scores available from the publisher Ries & Erler Berlin. As a solo violinist, he has often appeared in concert with Bach's complete sonatas and partitas, a repertoire he loves and which he has also recorded, as well as Bela Bartok's sonata for solo violin, Ysaye's 6 sonatas and Paganini's 24 caprices.
In September 2021, Alpha Classics released the complete Bach sonatas and partitas, 17 years after a first version that had already left its mark on the discography.
For a number of years now, Tedi has been working in duo with pianist François-Frédéric Guy on Beethoven's 10 sonatas. Their recording of these works was released in 2017. In the company of cellist Xavier Phillips, they are currently continuing their work on the complete Beethoven trios, which they will be recording shortly. In 2021, they will release Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and Prokofiev's 2nd Sonata with pianist Martha Argerich (Avanti Classics), as well as a new set of Bach Sonatas and Partitas (Alpha).
Now based in Geneva, Switzerland, Tedi teaches violin at the H.E.M. This concert will feature a violin built for him in 2022 by luthier David Leonard Wiedmer.