Amandine Beyer
Violinist Amandine Beyer has a variety of musical interests but is best known as a specialist in the Baroque violin, with a repertory stretching from the early Baroque to the Classical period. She has collaborated with numerous top historical performance groups, founded the chamber orchestra Gli Incogniti, and is a co-founder of the Kitgut Quartet. Beyer was born in 1974 in Aix-en-Provence, France. She began taking lessons at age four on both the violin and recorder. In 1990, she entered the Paris Conservatory as a violin student, studying with Sylvie Gazeau, graduating in 1994 with a first prize in violin. Her move toward the Baroque violin came when she was admitted to the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, studying with Baroque performance pioneer Chiara Banchini. She also enrolled in the school's musicology program, writing a thesis on Karlheinz Stockhausen. After completing the program in Basel in 1999, Beyer found herself in demand from some of Europe's top early music groups, including Jordi Savall's La Capella Reial de Catalunya as well as Banchini's Ensemble 415. She has also worked with other major figures such as harpsichordist/conductor Pierre Hantaï, cornettist Jean Tubéry with his group La Fenice, and fortepianist Edna Stern. A win at the 2001 Baroque Violin Competition in Turin, Italy, helped attract attention to Beyer as a soloist, and five years later, she launched her chamber orchestra, Gli Incogniti, which has developed into a group that is anything but unknown. Beyer is a frequent guest at European summer festivals. As her career has developed, she has taken on new challenges, co-founding the historically oriented Kitgut Quartet in 2015 (playing on gut strings) and performing the Partita No. 2 for solo violin, BWV 1004, as part of the modern Belgian ballet Partita 2. Beyer has had a varied recording career, beginning in 2004 as part of a group that recorded a group of Handel ensemble sonatas for the Zig Zag Territoires label. She has also recorded for Mirare, Harmonia Mundi, Glossa, and other labels, winning special acclaim in 2012 for her recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. In 2020, she moved to the Fra Bernardo label as part of a group of musicians on the English Renaissance/Baroque album London Calling. Beyer succeeded Banchini as Baroque violin teacher at the Basel Schola Cantorum and has also taught at the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts in Porto, Portugal. She is in demand for master classes in many countries.© James Manheim /TiVo Read more
Violinist Amandine Beyer has a variety of musical interests but is best known as a specialist in the Baroque violin, with a repertory stretching from the early Baroque to the Classical period. She has collaborated with numerous top historical performance groups, founded the chamber orchestra Gli Incogniti, and is a co-founder of the Kitgut Quartet.
Beyer was born in 1974 in Aix-en-Provence, France. She began taking lessons at age four on both the violin and recorder. In 1990, she entered the Paris Conservatory as a violin student, studying with Sylvie Gazeau, graduating in 1994 with a first prize in violin. Her move toward the Baroque violin came when she was admitted to the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, studying with Baroque performance pioneer Chiara Banchini. She also enrolled in the school's musicology program, writing a thesis on Karlheinz Stockhausen. After completing the program in Basel in 1999, Beyer found herself in demand from some of Europe's top early music groups, including Jordi Savall's La Capella Reial de Catalunya as well as Banchini's Ensemble 415. She has also worked with other major figures such as harpsichordist/conductor Pierre Hantaï, cornettist Jean Tubéry with his group La Fenice, and fortepianist Edna Stern. A win at the 2001 Baroque Violin Competition in Turin, Italy, helped attract attention to Beyer as a soloist, and five years later, she launched her chamber orchestra, Gli Incogniti, which has developed into a group that is anything but unknown. Beyer is a frequent guest at European summer festivals. As her career has developed, she has taken on new challenges, co-founding the historically oriented Kitgut Quartet in 2015 (playing on gut strings) and performing the Partita No. 2 for solo violin, BWV 1004, as part of the modern Belgian ballet Partita 2.
Beyer has had a varied recording career, beginning in 2004 as part of a group that recorded a group of Handel ensemble sonatas for the Zig Zag Territoires label. She has also recorded for Mirare, Harmonia Mundi, Glossa, and other labels, winning special acclaim in 2012 for her recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. In 2020, she moved to the Fra Bernardo label as part of a group of musicians on the English Renaissance/Baroque album London Calling. Beyer succeeded Banchini as Baroque violin teacher at the Basel Schola Cantorum and has also taught at the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts in Porto, Portugal. She is in demand for master classes in many countries.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Pachelbel : Un orage d'avril
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 19 Feb 2016
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Haydn : Concerti per Esterházy
Amandine Beyer
Violin Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 26 Oct 2018
Le Choix de France MusiqueDiapason d'orTo say that the concerto was one of Haydn's favourite forms would be a bit much, daft even. The man wrote a good hundred symphonies, dozens of quartet ...
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Caldara : Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 & Op. 2
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Glossa on 26 Jun 2015
Qobuzissime4 étoiles ClassicaDiapason d'or de l'annéeDiapason d'or24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi : Teatro alla moda - Violin Concertos
Amandine Beyer
Violin Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 15 Oct 2015
4F de Télérama4 étoiles ClassicaDiapason d'or1720: in his famous pamphlet entitled ‘Fashionable Theatre’, the composer Marcello ironized the excesses of the new Venetian opera. This landmark pamp ...
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C.P.E. Bach: "Beyond the Limits" Complete Symphonies for Strings and Continuo
Amandine Beyer
Symphonies - Released by harmonia mundi on 26 Mar 2021
The output of the prolific C.P.E. Bach continues to yield gems that justify the admiration of Mozart, among others, for his music. These six Symphonie ...
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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin / Pisendel: Sonata
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 29 Sep 2011
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Apothéoses. Monsieur Couperin
Amandine Beyer
Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 8 Sep 2014
Choc de ClassicaDiapason d'or24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Other Concertos
Amandine Beyer
Violin Concertos - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 Aug 2008
Director and violinist Amandine Beyer acknowledges in her booklet notes for this disc that the world may not seem to need another recording of Vivaldi ...
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London Calling
Amandine Beyer
Chamber Music - Released by Fra Bernardo on 22 May 2020
Another album of "recreational baroque" which, this time, takes us into the high society of London at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries under th ...
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J.-F. Rebel : Sonates pour violon & basse continue
Amandine Beyer
Chamber Music - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 1 Jan 2005
The introduction of Italian music into tradition-bound France at the beginning of the eighteenth century was a revolutionary event carrying all kinds ...
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C.P.E. Bach : Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano
Amandine Beyer
Duets - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 Sep 2005
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Vivaldi & Corelli
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 27 Oct 2014
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Marin Marais: Pièces en trio et sonates
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jan 1998
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 7 Oct 2014
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Bach: Sonates et partitas, BWV 1001-1006 (Alpha Collection)
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 29 Sep 2011
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Amandine Beyer: Portrait
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 10 Jun 2013
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Bach & Sons
Amandine Beyer
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 1 Jan 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo