Feast for the Senses: Lalande & Rameau

Amandine Beyer

Guest director & violin soloist

Amandine Beyer studied violin at the Conservatoire de Paris and Schola Cantorum Basel in the class of Chiara Banchini. She also benefited from the teaching of Christophe Coin, Hopkinson Smith, and Pedro Memelsdorff. In 2001, she won First Prize at the Antonio Vivaldi competition in Turin. Since then, Amandine Beyer has performed all over the world, as a soloist and concertmaster, but also with her own ensemble Gli Incogniti, which she founded in 2006. The ensemble approaches baroque and classical repertoire (Bach, Vivaldi, Couperin, Haydn, Mozart) in a spirit of freedom, pleasure, and sharing. At the same time, Amandine Beyer plays chamber music with partners such as Pierre Hantaï, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andreas Staier, Giuliano Carmignola, ranging from the baroque to the romantic. In 2015, she created the Kitgut Quartet, a string quartet that exclusively plays on period instruments. Amandine Beyer’s discography, as a soloist or with Gli Incogniti, has been unanimously acclaimed by the critics and awarded the highest distinctions (Diapason d’Or, Choc de l’année, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, ffff by Télérama). A passionate mentor, Amandine Beyer has been teaching violin at the Scola Cantorum in Basel since 2010.