violin & director
Since launching her career over twenty years ago, Amandine Beyer has given concerts all over the world. A sought-after soloist, she has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, Bozar in Brussels, the Oji Hall in Tokyo… She is regularly invited as soloist and Konzertmeister by the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Akademie für Alte Musik, Montreal’s Arion Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Les Siècles, Chiara Banchini’s Ensemble 415, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra…
Amandine Beyer founded her own ensemble, Gli Incogniti, in 2006, with whom she tackles instrumental music from Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, Pachelbel, Matteis, Couperin, CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart…
In 2011 Amandine Beyer recorded J.S. Bach’s Sonatas & Partita (Zig-Zag Territories/Outhere Music) to huge critical and public acclaim. She was then asked by the choreographer Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas company) to create Partita 2. After five performances in the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes in Avignon to close the Festival IN, she embarked on an international tour, giving over 20 performances around the world.
This collaboration continues in 2018 with the participation of her ensemble Gli Incogniti in the project The Six Brandenburg Concertos, which will be performed at the Paris Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, Berlin, New York, Liège, Lille, Luxembourg… Then in 2022, for the premiere of Mystery Sonatas / for Rosa, feature the Rosary Sonatas by Austrian composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.
At the same time, Amandine Beyer devotes herself to chamber music with partners such as Pierre Hantaï, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Andreas Staier, ranging from the Baroque to the Romantic repertoire, including Schubert and Beethoven.
Since her 2008 recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, which brought the Ensemble to the attention of the general public, the discography of Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti has been unanimously acclaimed by the critics and rewarded with the highest distinctions (Diapason d’Or, Choc de l’année, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, 4F de Télérama). Two new albums will be released by Harmonia Mundi. First, in September 2022, with Il Mondo al Rovescio devoted to Vivaldi, featuring a programme of eight concertos for several instruments. Then in February 2023, with Biber’s Mystery Sonatas from the dance project with Rosas.