Leo Tardin has performed all over the world as the leader of his Grand Pianoramax project, with which he has released 6 albums. He has also extensively performed in piano solo format, as well as taken part in various collaborations (including Roy Ayers, Maria João, Paula Oliveira, Burhan Öçal, The Last Poets, and Grégoire Maret, to name a few).

Tour cancellations during the Covid period were an opportunity for him to reconsider his artistic practice in general, and to include a new medium in the field of his activity: drawing.

He has thus matured the idea of a musical and visual live performance for which he produces both sonic and pictorial content, creating a poetic experience in which the public can escape for the duration of a multi-sensorial performance. He performed with this « Piano illustré » project at events en venues including the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Atrium of the Lincoln Center for the Chelsea Music Festival in New York, and the Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi in Venice to name a few.

Leo Tardin lived ten years in New York, where he graduated from the New School University and signed as a recording artist with the ObliqSound label; he then resided in Berlin for two years before returning to his hometown, Geneva, where he teaches piano and is a dean at eMa.