Isabelle Faust

Critically acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust was born in Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, on March 19, 1972. Winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1993, she has demonstrated the breadth of her talents in recordings and concerts. Invited to the greatest festivals and concert halls, she won a Gramophone Award in 1997 for her Bartok Sonatas , then went on to record the great works of the repertoire: violin concertos by Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorak, as well as those by contemporary composers, notably Janacek, Jolivet and Martinu. His two volumes of J. S. Bach Sonatas & Partitas , published in 2010 and 2012, have been acclaimed by the critics. After recording the complete Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano , Isabelle Faust reunited with her regular partner, pianist Alexander Melnikov, for a program devoted to Carl Maria von Weber, published in 2013. She then begins a trilogy devoted to Robert Schumann with the Violin Concerto (2015), followed by Mozart's Violin Concertos with Giovanni Antonini (2016), Mendelssohn with Pablo Heras-Casado (2017) and Bach with Bernhard Forck (2019). In 2021, Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov will be released, conducted by Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester. The same conductor leads Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (2021), while François-Xavier Roth and his ensemble Les Siècles accompany him in the Russian composer's Violin Concerto, in a volume to be released in 2023. Acclaimed by enthusiastic critics for each of her releases, Isabelle Faust continues to work extensively on her preferred catalogs, while at the same time extending her repertoire to include Locatelli, Britten and Telemann. In 2025, the latter is represented by a range of works including Violin Concertos, an Overture, a Suite and a Fantasy.