Isabelle faust melnikov beethoven biography

Isabelle Faust (born 19 March 1972) is a German violinist who has worked internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

  • After winning the renowned Leopold Mozart.
  • Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have long cherished the project of recording them all.
  • German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov, who last performed at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music in 2014.
  • Isabelle Faust returns to Hong Kong with pianist Alexander Melnikov to unveil the interlacing harmonic patterns in Beethoven's 10 sonatas for violin and piano.

    • Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have long cherished the project of recording them all....

    Isabelle Faust

    German violinist (born 1972)

    Isabelle Faust (born 19 March 1972) is a German violinist who has worked internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

    She has received multiple awards.

    Life and career

    Faust was born in Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg on 12 March 1972.[1][2] She received her first violin lessons at the age of five.

    Isabelle Faust captivates her audience with her compelling interpretations.

    Her father, then a 31 year old secondary school teacher, decided to learn the violin. He took his young daughter along: the father's talent was not especially stellar, but his daughter was able to learn the technical fundamentals of violin playing correctly and at an unusually early age, quickly herself becoming the star pupil.

    Shortly after that her brother also began to take lessons and when Isabelle was 11 the parents created a family string quartet for which several masterclasses were later organised with some of the leading string players of the time.

    The early start was, for both the children, th