Isabelle Faust

Isabelle Faust captivates her audience through insightful and faithful interpretations, grounded in a thorough knowledge of the historical context of the works as well as her attention to current scholarship. This allows her to bring both illumination and passion to her performances across a wide range of repertoire by various composers.

After winning the renowned Leopold Mozart Competition and the Paganini Competition at a young age, she soon thereafter began performing regularly with the world’s major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Les Siècles, and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

This led to close and sustained collaborations with conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Giovanni Antonini, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Jakub Hrůša, Klaus Mäkelä, Robin Ticciati, and Sir Simon Rattle, with whom she planned to tour again in March 2024.

Highlights of the 2023-24 season included celebrating Ligeti’s 100th birthday with an extensive tour with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth. Faust performed with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, as well as on a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra. She was also the artist in residence with the SWR Symphony Orchestra in the 2023-24 season. 

Her chamber music projects included collaborations with Antoine Tamestit, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Kristin von der Goltz, and a North American tour with Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Her numerous recordings have been praised by critics and received the Diapason d’Or, the Gramophone Award, the Choc de l’année, and other prizes. Recent recordings included Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pablo Heras-Casado, and the Freiburger Barockorchester.