Amandine Beyer

Amandine Beyer’s first instrument was the recorder: some years later she started to learn the violin in Aurélia Spadaro’s class in Aix-en-Provence. Maybe that is why, after finishing her ‘modern’ violin studies at the CNSM in Paris and having written her Master’s on K. Stockhausen, she returned to Early Music and went off to study under Chiara Banchini in Basel. This important period in her training allowed her to discover the world of rhetoric in musical performance and to benefit from contact with such key figures as Hopkinson Smith, Christophe Coin, Pedro Memelsdorff (for several years she played in the medieval ensemble, Mala Punica), Jean Tubéry and Alfredo Bernardini. All these experiences contributed to her training as a musician and performer, and inspired her to set off on a career as a roving violinist, giving numerous concerts all over the world. At the moment she shares her time between the different groups of which she is a member: Les Cornets Noirs, Le Concert Français, as a duo with Pierrre Hantai and the latest on the list, Gli Incognito, with whom she recorded Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons". This has met with huge acclaim, yet she has not neglected her teaching or her other activities. She teaches at ESMAE in Porto (Portugal), as well as in Barbaste, Mondovi (Italy) and Taipei. Her Bach sonatas and partitas published in September, 2011, gave new life to the Baroque vision and were universally acclaimed by the critics: Diapason d’Or for the year, Choc de Classica for the year, Charles Cros Academy award… Since September 2010 Amandine has replaced Chiara Banchini as a teacher of Baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland.