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Beethoven Violin Concerto // Isabelle Faust with the Berliner Philharmoniker

“Her sound has passion, grit and electricity but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden strains of lyricism…”

The New York Times

“Even better was the brief slow movement, in which the throb of her silken tone and long-breathed phrasing honored the music’s tender romantic sensibility. She dispatched the bravura pages with spot-on digital marksmanship calculated to call attention to the music rather than to herself. In short, she made Schumann’s problematic opus succeed despite itself.”

Chicago Tribune

“Faust, by contrast, was perfectly precise but ­wholly organic. Her sound had the complexity not of a machine’s cogs but of the jagged edge of a plant’s leaf, perfectly formed yet subject to ­natural forces — tugs at individual phrases, like gentle breezes, distinguishing one statement from ­another ­without a pause in velocity.”

Washington Post

“The stillness of focus and purity of sound that has distinguished her playing can be heard in a ­repertoire stretching from Beethoven and Schubert through to Hartmann and Ligeti, on modern and period strings. Where other violinists dazzle, Faust is a thinker.”

The Guardian

Internationally renowned violinist Isabelle Faust captivates her audiences with “deep and complex” interpretations of works spanning the baroque to the contemporary.  (Minnesota Star Tribune). With “clarity, gutsy depth, and technical brilliance,” she performs as soloist with the world’s leading orchestras and in recital at the premiere concert halls (San Francisco Classical Voice).

Having won the Leopold Mozart and Paganini competitions at a very young age, she began performing with the world’s major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Freiburger Barockorchester leading to close and sustained relationships with conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Giovanni Antonini, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Jakub Hrůša, Klaus Mäkelä, Robin Ticciati and Sir Simon Rattle, among others.

The breadth of Ms. Faust’s artistry encompasses the baroque to the contemporary and solo to symphonic with a heavy investment in chamber music as well. Notable collaborations include a coproduction of Igor Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat” with the Salzburg Marionette Theater and the Salzburg Festival featuring puppetry by Georg Baselitz and a performance from French actor Dominique Horwitz, as well as performances of György Kurtág’s “Kafka Fragments” with Austrian-British soprano Anna Prohaska, Schubert’s Octet performed on period instruments, and recitals with Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov and South African harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout. Her most recent world premieres include compositions by Péter Eötvös, Brett Dean, Ondřej Adámek and Rune Glerup, and in May 2026 she will premiere a new work for violin and orchestra by the Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Les Siecles and Ustina Dubitsky, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Bernard Labadie, the National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, and the Orchestre National de Lyon and Thomas Dausgaard, as well as Schumann’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Mäkelä, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Dinis Sousa, and the Copenhagen Philharmonic and Thomas Dausgaard, Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Kevin John Edusei, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Philippe Jordan, and the Dvorak Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic and Petr Popelka and the Netherlands Philharmonic and Eva Ollikainen, among others.

This season, she is Artist in Residence with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam.

A prolific recording artist, Ms. Faust’s albums are overwhelmingly praised by critics and have been awarded many European prizes including the Diapason d’or, the Gramophone Award, the Choc de l’année and more. Recent recordings include György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto with Les Siècles led by François-Xavier Roth, Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jakub Hrůša, works for violin and orchestra by Pietro Locatelli with Il Giardino Armonico and works for solo violin by Biber, Matteis, Pisendel, Vilsmayr and Guillemain. Her recordings of the Bach Partitas and Sonatas are amongst the prizes of many Baroque collectors, as are the violin concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alban Berg with the Orchestra Mozart under the direction of Claudio Abbado.

AUGUST 2025