Isabelle Faust

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Isabelle Faust (2012)

Isabelle Faust (* 1972 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German violinist .

Life

Isabelle Faust received her first violin lessons at the age of five. After training with Christoph Poppen and Dénes Zsigmondy , she won the 1st Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition (Mozart Prize - 1st Prize) in Augsburg in 1987  . In 1990 the city of Rovigo awarded her the Premio Quadrivio . In 1993 she won the competition for the Premio Paganini in Genoa . In 1994 she received the sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

This marked the beginning of an international concert career with a large number of renowned orchestras, including the Munich Philharmonic , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the Orchester de Paris and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra . Isabelle Faust made her first appearance in the USA in 1995 when she performed Nicolò Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Joseph Silverstein . Among the conductors she has worked with are Sir Yehudi Menuhin , Michael Gielen , Heinz Holliger , Marek Janowski , Mariss Jansons , Gary Bertini , Helmuth Rilling , James Levine and Claudio Abbado .

Her repertoire covers the entire spectrum of violin literature. Her first CD recording in 1997, the solo violin sonata and violin sonata No. 1 for violin and piano by Béla Bartók , received the Young Artist of the Year gramophone award . Together with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under her teacher Christoph Poppen, she recorded all of Joseph Haydn's violin concertos . In 2002 she received the Cannes Classical Award for her recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto funèbre . In addition to important chamber music works, Isabelle Faust has also recorded the violin concertos by Dvořák, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Jolivet and Martinů for Harmonia Mundi . She played several times with the Russian pianist Alexander Melnikow . Both musicians are certified as having a fruitful collaboration.

In 2004 Faust was appointed professor for violin at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She gave up this professorship after three years due to lack of time. She gives up to 120 concerts a year.

Isabelle Faust plays the “Sleeping Beauty” Stradivarius from 1704, on loan from L-Bank .

She is married and lives with her husband, whom she met during her seven-year stay in Paris , and their son in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corina Kolbe: Solo for Beethoven . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 5, 2012.
  2. ^ Oswald Beaujean: Dmitri Schostakowitsch - piano concertos. In: br.de. March 10, 2012, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 ; accessed on April 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Wolfram Goertz: Democratic two-tone . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/2009; CD review.
  4. ^ Jörg Königsdorf: Faust and Melnikov play Beethoven . Der Tagesspiegel online, August 6, 2009; accessed on April 3, 2012; CD review.
  5. ↑ Klassik-Pop-Et Cetera on Deutschlandfunk ; accessed on March 31, 2012.
  6. ↑ Jakob Buhre: Everyone has to consciously rack their brains. In: www.concerti.de. concerti Media GmbH, May 16, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ a b Volker Hagedorn: Violinist Isabelle Faust: Sounds for space. In: Die Zeit , No. 49/2012
  8. ↑ How do you train your violin, Frau Faust? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 2, 2012, p. Z 6.
personal data
SURNAME Faust, Isabelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar