TIMON LUMIÈRE

SINGER - SONGWRITER

BIOGRAPHY

Growing up amid the highs and lows of the Swiss Alps, music and lyricism have always been Timon Lumière’s guiding light.

His broad musical palette - shaped by artists such as Lady Gaga, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, and Sam Smith - reveals itself in his colorful voice, most often accompanied by his own piano playing.

You cannot not tell a story.

Lumière writes out of necessity, searching for meaning in the sensory overload that is life. Fascinated by the chasms of the humand mind, he captures the beauty within dark and gloomy moments, labeling it „gothic impressionism.“

Writing about mental health, feminism, love, queerness and salty condiments, he is on a mission to take part in a renaissance of a more naturalistic, conscientious and „real“ approach to music.

What is real anyway?

Portrait of Timon Lumière wearing a black turtleneck and a black jacket in front of white pillars.

VIDEOS

CONCERTS 2025

APR 04 BERLIN, DE SONGSLAM KREUZBERG

APR 05 BERLIN, DE KALLASCH&

MAY 24 INTERLAKEN, CH SCHLOSSKELLER

SEP 19 BERLIN, DE LISA'S CAFÉ

OCT 4 BERLIN, DE KERZENKLANG SESSIONS

DISCOGRAPHY

STARDUST (2025)

Written for the short movie Amar & Lena, Stardust marks Timon Lumière’s first composition for a film production. Amar & Lena tells the story of a couple from different cultural backgrounds, navigating grief, bodily autonomy and societal expectations.

The song was released on streaming platforms in April 2025 alongside a simple music video. Stardust stands out for its subtle way of shedding light on emotions that are usually concealed due to other's expectations that one should have already moved on.

Timon Lumière won Best Original Score with Stardust at the Rome International Movie Awards in August 2025.

HEAVEN EP (2024)

Timon Lumière's debut EP Heaven is an introspective travelogue, describing a journey that begins in a desolate, gloomy cavern and slowly ascends along a path leading into the light.

With melancholic campiness the singer-songwriter offers insight into states of hopelessness and depression (Delirium), the experience of being queer in a Swiss mountain village (Pearl in the Oyster Sauce), the sensationalism of women's suffering (Medusa (蛇)) and how to initiate change within oneself and others (Heaven).

All songs were recorded live in Berlin and are allowed to shine through their simplistic, acoustic arrangements. Lumière is accompanied only by himself on the piano or by Fede Paoles on the guitar.

Do you live or are you being lived?

BEFORE I KNEW YOU (2023)

Timon Lumière’s debut single Before I Knew You was released in March 2023. The live-recorded piano ballad portrays the innocence and timidity of first love through natural imagery, concluding that you don’t necessarily have to love yourself in order to love somebody else - but that you can also discover self-love love by loving somebody else.