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Amandine Beyer French Baroque music specialist.
At the age of four, Amandine Beyer began learning the violin and the recorder at the conservatory in her hometown. She entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Paris, where she received a first prize in the violin class in 1994. In 1995, she was admitted to the baroquechiara Banchini violin class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Schola Cantorum of Basel), where she obtained the soloist Diploma in 1999. At the same time, she began to study musicology with a master's degree in Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Since 1998, she has played regularly with the ensemble 415 (under the direction of Chiara Banchini), the Capella Reial de Catalunya (under the direction of Jordi Savall), the Cornets noirs, the Concert Français, the Academia Montis Regalis, the Assembly of curious honors with which she won the BonportiRovereto Prize in 1998 and recorded several critically acclaimed records.
Since 2000, she performs regularly as a soloist in festivals and concert halls around the world, with Pablo Valetti and the sets Café Zimmermann and Stylus Phantasticus, La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), with harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï as well as with Edna Stern at the forte-piano.
In 2001, she won the baroque violin competition Antonio VivaldiTurin. The foundation of his ensemble Gli Incogniti (Les Inconnu) in 2006 was a first great success with the recording of several concertos, unpublished or reconstituted by Jean-Sébastien Bach. In 2008, their recording of the Vivaldi Four Seasons was also a public and critical success1.
His discs are marketed by labels such as Zig-Zag Territoires, Erato, Harmonia Mundi France, Alpha, Opus 111, and Mirare.
Amandine Beyer is a professor in the training course of baroque music at Barbaste and professor of baroque violin at the Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectaculo in Porto. In September 2010, she succeeded Chiara Banchini as professor of baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum in Basel.
In 2013, she performed on stage Partita for solo violin no. 2 from Bach to ballet, contemporary dance Partita no. 2 created by the choreographer of the belgian Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in collaboration with Boris Charmatz.