Voted Composer of the Year at the annual "Victoires de la Musique Classique 2008"
(also in 2004), Éric Tanguy is held in high esteem by Mstislav Rostropovich who, in 2001, gave the first performance of his Second Cello Concerto at the Flâneries Musicales in Rheims, and the following year took the same work to Boston and New York (Carnegie Hall), where he performed it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa. In 2004 Tanguy's Sénèque, dernier jour for narrator and orchestra, was premièred in Paris by the actor Michel Blanc and the Orchestre de Bretagne.