Amandine Beyer

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Amandine Beyer (* 1974 in Aix-en-Provence ) is a French violinist who is mainly active in the field of historical performance practice .

Life

Amandine Beyer began learning the recorder and violin at the conservatory in her hometown at the age of four. In 1990 she moved to the Paris Conservatory , where she completed her studies with great success in 1994. In 1995 she came to Chiara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , where she began studying the baroque violin . Here she received her soloist diploma in 1999. During her time in Basel, she studied musicology and submitted a thesis on Karlheinz Stockhausen .

Since 1997 Amandine Beyer has played regularly in Chiara Banchini's "Ensemble 415", later in the various formations of Jordi Savall and as concertmaster in "Le Concert Français" under Pierre Hantaï , "La Fénice" under Jean Tubéry , or she appears as a soloist with the "Ensemble Café Zimmermann" under Pablo Valetti . Occasionally she plays Vivaldi's concertos for two violins with Giuliano Carmignola .

She is co-founder of various chamber ensembles such as the “Les Cornets Noirs” or the “L'Assemblée des honestes curieux”, with which she won the 1998 Premio Bonporti in Rovereto. In 2001 she won the Antonio Vivaldi competition for baroque violin in Turin. In 2006 she made her first appearance with her own chamber orchestra "Gli Incogniti" and received top reviews and record awards for her Vivaldi and Bach recordings.

Since 2000 she has been a guest at baroque music festivals all over Europe, both as a soloist and as a chamber music partner of various other soloists and ensembles.

Amandine Beyer is professor for baroque violin at the Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectaculo in Porto and teaches various master classes. Since September 2010 she has been leading the baroque violin class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis together with Leila Schayegh .

Discography (selection)

  • As a soloist in several recordings by the “Café Zimmermann” ensemble. Alpha label
  • 2004: Handel: Sonatas in several parts. With “Les Honestes Curieux”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2004: O Dilectissime Jesu. Works by Giovanni Lenzei . With “Les Cornets Noirs” and Monika Mauch, soprano. ORF label.
  • 2005: C. Ph. E. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Clavier. With Edna Stern . Zig-Zag label.
  • 2005: Chaconne. Works by Bach, Brahms, Busoni and Rudolf Lutz . With Edna Stern. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2006: Jean-Féry Rebel : Sonates pour violon et basse continue. With “Les Honestes Curieux”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2007: JS Bach, Unknown Concerts and Reconstructions “Gli Incogniti”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2008: Vivaldi: Violin Concertos and Concertos opus 8, (Four Seasons). With “Gli Incogniti”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2009: Works by Nicola Matteis . With “Gli Incogniti”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2010: Beatus vir . Works by Johann Rosenmüller . With Raquel Andueza (soprano), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass) and “Gli Incogniti”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2012: Nuova stagione. Antonio Vivaldi : Concerti. With “Gli Ingogniti”. Zig-Zag label.
  • 2013: Arcangelo Corelli - The Complete Concerti Grossi. Gli Incogniti. Zig-zag territories
  • 2014: Les Apotheoses de Lully et de Corelli François Couperin . With Gli Incogniti. HMF label
  • 2015: It is salvation and we come here. Cantata BWV 9 . Julia Doyle (soprano), Alex Potter (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass). Choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Rudolf Lutz (conductor). Including an introductory workshop and musical reflection by Amandine Beyer. DVD. Gallus Media, 2015.
  • 2016: Johann Pachelbel : Das Gewitter im Aprilen , 6 Parthien from Die Musikalische Erötzung and verse songs. With Gli Incogniti and Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor). (Harmonia Mundi)
  • 2016: Antonio Bertali , Johann Heinrich Schmelzer , Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber : Church sonatas. Georg Muffat : Missa in laboratories requies. Miriam Feuersinger , Stephanie Petitlaurent (soprano), Alex Potter, William Purefoy (alto), Hans Jörg Mammel, Manuel Warwitz (tenor), Markus Flaig , Lisandro Abadie (bass), Cappella Murensis with Amandine Beyer and Cosimo Stawiarski (violins), trumpet consort Innsbruck, Les Cornets Noirs, Johannes Strobl (lead). Recorded in the Muri monastery church . CD. Audits.
  • 2017: BWV ... or not? With Gli Incogniti. Harmonia Mundi.
  • 2017: Joseph Haydn Concerti per Esterhazy with Gli Incogniti and Marco Ceccato solo cello. Harmonia Mundi.
  • 2020: Tis too late be wise works by Haydn, Purcell, Locke, Blow, with the Kitgut Quartet . Harmonia Mundi.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amandine Beyer on the Schola Cantorum website
  2. ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on April 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bachstiftung.ch
  3. ↑ Program and information on the Audite Musikproduktion website , accessed on July 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Amandine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence