Programming dossier
2026 - 2027
The project at a glance
A hybrid creation workshop
TiamoForte is a performance-creation duo formed in 2018 by physician-researcher Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli and pianist-composer Thomas Dieuleveut.
On stage, texts written and performed by Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli - drawing in part on his own scientific work on desire, love and attachment - engage in real time with the compositions and improvisations of Thomas Dieuleveut. Everything - texts, compositions, scientific choices, themes, improvisations, audience interactions - is original and created by the duo.
Since 2020 the duo has been programmed in settings as varied as the Fondation pour Genève before the Ambassadors to the United Nations, the great Franz Liszt Hall of the Geneva Conservatory, the POESTATE International Poetry Festival in Lugano, Italian-language Swiss public television and several European medical congresses.
Twenty-five performances presented over seven consecutive seasons across five Swiss cantons and France.
TiamoForte® is a registered trademark in Switzerland, the European Union, Benelux and the Principality of Monaco.
What makes the project singular
Five registers combined
Five registers rarely brought together within a single staged work meet in TiamoForte. It is this combination that sets the project apart from a conventional text-and-music recital.
- Primary scientific research. Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli is one of Europe’s leading researchers in the neuroscience of desire, love and attachment - more than one hundred and fifty publications, cited more than 2,600 times, several featured on the cover of NeuroImage and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Original poetic writing. Texts written and performed in French and Italian, presented notably at the Poestate International Poetry Festival in Lugano.
- Musical composition and improvisation. Original compositions and real-time improvisations by Thomas Dieuleveut, including the album N’ÊTRE & RENAÎTRE (2019).
- Visual dramaturgy. For recitals with an iconographic component, works from art history are deployed as a visual score running parallel to the texts.
- Structured interactive format. Drawn from the Piano Coach format and twenty-five years of clinical practice, it enables the Salon format with structured interaction after the recital.
The inventor of the Passion Meter
With Stephanie Ortigue, Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli is the inventor of the Passion Meter, an international patent for the neurobiological detection of the passionate state, selected in 2007 for the TechConnect World Innovation Summit (USA). When he performs Science and Art of Desire, it is not a literary commentary on passion: it is the voice of a researcher who established its very measure.
The two artists - I
Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli
Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli is one of Europe’s leading clinician-researchers in sexual medicine and the neuroscience of desire, love and attachment.
An FMH board-certified specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, trained at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lausanne and at Harvard Medical School (Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation), he was Associate Professor at the University of Geneva - a joint appointment to the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - until 2023. At Geneva University Hospitals, he directed the Unit of Sexual Medicine and Sexology for nearly twenty years and is today head of the sexual medicine clinic at the CHUV (Lausanne University Hospital), while maintaining a clinical practice at the Hirslanden Group in Geneva.
Co-founder and past President of the Swiss Society of Sexology, scientific co-director of the University Certificate in Clinical Sexology at the University of Geneva from 2008 to 2022 and today a member of its steering committee, he is the author of more than one hundred and fifty scientific publications (177 indexed on ResearchGate), cited more than 2,600 times. Several of his works have featured on the cover of NeuroImage and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He has published five books, among them Sexologie: naissance d’une science de la vie (PPUR, Le Savoir suisse, 2012) and De l’amour, fragments d’un discours scientifique (Actes Sud, 2019), a work co-authored with Marie Bergström, Philippe Brenot, Nicole Guedeney and Francis Wolff, accompanying the De l’amour exhibition at the Palais de la découverte in 2019. His research on the cerebral bases of female desire, pleasure, passionate love and attachment has been recognised by the Senior Prize of the Maurice Chalumeau Fund and by the Best Research Award of the European Society for Sexual Medicine. With Stephanie Ortigue, he is the inventor of the Passion Meter, an international patent for the neurobiological detection of the passionate state, selected in 2007 for the TechConnect World Innovation Summit, the leading US platform for high-impact translational innovation (Research Triangle, USA).
Elected Class Patron and best teacher of the 2016 cohort by the students of the Faculty of Medicine, he has taught and published for more than twenty-five years on the scientific, clinical and human dimensions of desire and the romantic bond. Beyond the strictly academic sphere, he has long brought together scientific research and poetry. Drawn to poetic writing from an early age, he was selected to present his texts at the POESTATE International Literature Festival in Lugano in June 2023, before completing in 2026 an unpublished collection titled Frane Di Luce.
His poetic world, written and performed in Italian and French, explores a language that is sensitive, musical and deeply personal.
The two artists - II
Thomas Dieuleveut
Thomas Dieuleveut is a French pianist and composer trained at the Dijon Regional National Conservatory, in the class of Boris Nedeltchev - a Bulgarian-Russian concert pianist and the conservatory’s leading teacher - which he left in 1991 with the end-of-studies diploma, following a specialised music-focused schooling.
But Thomas’s soul is a plural one. While his right hand caresses the keys, his left hand writes other scores: he took up law in a Normale Sup preparatory class at ENS Cachan, explored the arcana of business at the IAE (Savoie-Mont Blanc and Bourgogne) and discovered the subtle art of coaching in Geneva (IDC).
A visionary and a builder, he founded a consultancy in human resources and management. For more than twenty-five years he has guided some twenty consultants through the labyrinths of professional life. His clear-sighted counsel supports not only companies but also the highest spheres of power: ministerial advisers and influential figures find in him an attentive strategist, driven by the search for meaning and transformation.
Yet he never abandons his first passion. Throughout these years of manifold metamorphoses, Thomas never stops playing. From hushed drawing rooms to open stages, in France and abroad, he gives the piano the echo of his soul, letting his music speak where words fall silent.
His piano writing sits at the crossroads of narrative neo-classicism, contemporary romanticism and a cinematically inspired dramaturgy. In October 2019 he released his first album, N’ÊTRE & RENAÎTRE, twelve original compositions for solo piano, later revisited in duo with guitar, flute and saxophone. The album, whose title traces its arc, is rooted in a singular personal history: born anonymously and adopted at six months by the Dieuleveut family, he made this double birth the substance of a work in which each piece answers a moment of life. An improviser, he has shared the stage with Jean-François Zygel, notably in public improvisation masterclasses at La Clusaz in 2019 and 2022.
From this twofold practice - pianist-composer and company director - Le Piano Coach was born in 2008, a hybrid format developed for executive committees and leadership teams.
His meeting with Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli, in July 2018 at La Clusaz, gave rise to a duo whose first public performance took place in February 2020 in Geneva and which would take the name TiamoForte in 2024. Today Thomas Dieuleveut devotes the greater part of his stage activity to it.
The offer
Three formats
TiamoForte can be programmed in three formats, from the full stage to the most intimate setting.
The recital
Capacity 80 to 500
The classic stage format: texts, music and, depending on the recital, visual dramaturgy. For concert halls, festivals, congresses, institutions and major events.
The TiamoForte Salon
Capacity 10 to 60
The recital in an intimate format, followed by a structured interaction with the audience. For private residences, clubs, circles, foundations and prestige events.
The Signature Salon for Couples
Residential format
An experiential offering, of one to two days, designed for the couple(s), built around the recital The Arpeggios of Connection: listening, presence, resonance. Bespoke and confidential.
Each format, its audience
The Recital suits cultural seasons, festivals and congresses. The Salon is aimed at private circles, foundations and corporate cultural programmes seeking direct exchange. The Signature Salon for Couples answers an exceptional private commission.
Production terms
Three production modes
Whatever the chosen format, each recital can be programmed in three modes, from the simplest to the most bespoke.
- From the repertoire. A catalogue work performed as is. Simple to programme, a proven format. - Logistical preparation only.
- Adapted to commission. A catalogue work tailored to a given theme or context. - Indicative lead time: one to two weeks.
- Bespoke original creation. An entirely new work conceived for a venue, an institution, a tribute or a theme. - Indicative lead time: four to six weeks.
A proven capacity for rapid creation
Five original creations were conceived in eighteen months (December 2024 – March 2026), at a pace of four to six weeks, in fields far from the primary specialty: life-sciences law, instrument making, reproductive medicine, menopause, sport.
Among them: a creation for the Women’s Health Congress 2026 in Fribourg (Sexuality and Menopause, January 2026); a lecture-recital linking fertility and sporting culture for the Fifth International Meeting: The Future of A.R.T. in Lugano (March 2026); and From Tree to Note, created for an antique-piano restoration workshop before a university audience.
This capacity for rapid creation under constraint is the project’s most distinctive asset in the market for commissioned art for singular events.
The repertoire
Catalogue of the eight recitals
| No | Recital | Length | Audiences / Target contexts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Science and Art of Desire: The Composition of Our Humanity | 75min | Institutional and scientific signature - congresses, universities, science & art festivals. |
| 2 | The Four Seasons of Love | 60min | General cultural audience - cultural seasons, festivals, events; the metamorphoses of love. |
| 3 | The Silent Heroes: Light on the Invisible | 60min | Medico-social - family caregivers, healthcare professionals, health foundations and institutions, general public. |
| 4 | The Splendour of Discovery: The Allegory of the Cave | 60min | Cultural / philosophical / research - festivals of ideas, universities, learned societies. |
| 5 | Sexuality and Endometriosis: A Hidden Melody | 45min | Women’s health - gynaecology, reproductive medicine, foundations. Possible cycle with no. 7. |
| 6 | From Tree to Note (De l’Arbor à l’Amor) | 45min | High-end cultural - visual dramaturgy, instrument making, heritage, law and ecology of living systems. |
| 7 | Sexuality and Menopause: In Search of the Sacred Light of Desire | 45min | Women’s health - menopause, life transition, quality of life. Possible cycle with no. 5. |
| 8 | The Arpeggios of the Bond | 1‑2 jours | Residential experiential format for couples - outside the stage format; connection, listening, presence, resonance. |
Modes: from the repertoire · adapted to commission · bespoke creation.
Possible cycle: endometriosis + menopause, a focus dedicated to women’s sexual health.
A dedicated editorial focus
Women’s sexual health, at every stage of life
Two recitals in the catalogue are devoted specifically to women’s sexual health at critical stages of life. Together they form an editorial thematic focus that can be presented as a cycle or as a paired programme.
- Sexuality and Endometriosis: A Hidden Melody (45 min) - the bodily and emotional experience of endometriosis.
- Sexuality and Menopause: In Search of the Sacred Light of Desire (45 min) - menopause as a life transition and desire as a resource.
« A focus dedicated to women’s sexual health at every stage of life: endometriosis and menopause. Two recitals built on Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli’s scientific work in the neuroscience of desire, set within a poetic dramaturgy on the bodily and emotional experience of women’s transitions.»
Relevant presenters: women’s-health foundations, dedicated congresses, corporate cultural programmes focused on diversity and inclusion.
Performance history
Public performances, 2020-2026
Seven consecutive seasons, from the first public stage to institutional consolidation. The principal public performances appear below; the full history (twenty-five performances, including private events and bespoke creations) is available on request.
| Date | Venue | Context / Event |
|---|---|---|
| February 2020 | Campus Biotech, Geneva | International medical congress - closing |
| October 2020 | Lugano | Italian-language Swiss public television (RSI) - broadcast |
| July 2021 | La Clusaz | Beauregard Music Festival |
| April 2022 | Lugano | Fertility International Joint Meetings |
| December 2022 | Geneva | Fondation pour Genève - before the Ambassadors to theUnited Nations |
| March 2023 | Geneva Conservatory, Franz Liszt Hall | Bicentenary of the Geneva Medical Society (filmed) |
| June 2023 | Lugano | Poestate International Poetry Festival |
| November 2023 | Lugano | Recital The Four Seasons of Love - Ora Blu |
| May 2024 | Faculty of Psychology, Geneva | Recital The Discovery |
| June 2024 | Campus Biotech, Geneva | International medical congress - Hymn to Caregivers |
| November 2024 | Geneva Conservatory, Franz Liszt Hall | Music and Neuroscience Congress |
| March 2025 | HUG Maternity Hospital, Geneva | National medical congress - assigned theme |
| March 2025 | Fribourg | International medical congress - closing |
| June 2025 | Campus Biotech, Geneva | International medical congress - closing |
| January2026 | Fribourg | Women’s Health Congress 2026 - premiere of Sexuality and Menopause |
| March 2026 | Lugano | Fifth International Meeting: The Future of A.R.T. - premiere |
| June 2026 | Campus Biotech, Geneva | International medical congress |
| November 2026 | Neuchâtel | Medical congress (upcoming) |
Credibility
Landmark performances
The history brings together institutional stages, medical congresses, festivals and television broadcast.
- October 2020 - Television broadcast on Italian-language Swiss public television (RSI).
- December 2022 - Fondation pour Genève, before the Ambassadors to the United Nations.
- May 2023 - Geneva Conservatory, Franz Liszt Hall, bicentenary of the Geneva Medical Society (filmed).
- November 2024 - Geneva Conservatory, Franz Liszt Hall, Music and Neuroscience Congress.
Solid venues and contexts
Campus Biotech, the Geneva Conservatory, Geneva University Hospitals, the Fondation pour Genève, Radiotelevisione svizzera, international festivals and congresses: a track record already proven, yet still rare enough to remain programmable as an event.
Practical information
Technical specifications & terms
| Running times | Short recital 30 min, long 45 min. Signature recital (Science and Art of Desire) 75 min; The Four Seasons of Love 60 min. |
| Capacity — Recital | 80 to 500 people (and beyond). |
| Capacity — Salon | 10 to 60 people. |
| Piano | Concert grand, semi-concert grand, parlour grand or baby grand, depending on the venue configuration. |
| Sound | Voice microphone + piano microphones. Stage lighting. HD video projection for recitals with an iconographic component. |
| Languages | French (primary), Italian (proven stage practice - Lugano, RSI), English surtitles on request. |
| Lead times | Commissioned adaptation: 1 to 2 weeks. Original creation: 4 to 6 weeks. |
Note: the Salon format includes, after the recital, a structured interaction with the audience- allow for a total running time longer than the recital alone.