At the age of fifteen, Isabelle Faust wins the First Prize at the prestigious Leopold Mozart Competition, and, shortly after, she also wins the gold medal at the Paganini Violin Competition. Since then, she has been appearing in the most important venues around the world, collaborating with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors of our time. An audacious, virtuoso, passionate, and eclectic artist, Isabelle Faust possesses a remarkable repertoire, ranging from Baroque – which she performs on period instruments – and all the way to classical, romantic, contemporary and avant-garde works.

In the last few seasons, Isabelle Faust has performed as soloists with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, L’Orchestre de Paris, the BBC Symphony, the Tokyo NHK Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with legendary conductors, such as Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding et Philippe Herreweghe.

Isabelle Faust has recorded numerous albums, all awarded by prestigious prizes. Her recording of the Bach Violin Concertos has received the greatest international distinctions, such as the “Diapason d’Or”, the “Gramophone Award”, and the “Choc de l'Année Classica”. Her recording of the Beethoven and Berg Violin Concertos have also been awarded numerous prizes by the most important newspapers and musical magazines.

With pianist Alexander Melnikov, her trusted duo partner for many years, Isabelle Faust has traveled around the world, performing, among many other projects, the Beethoven complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano. Passionate about new music, she has collaborated with some of today’s greatest living composers, such as Helmut Lachenmann, Jörg Widmann, Oscar Strasnoy, Beat Furrer, and Peter Eötvös.

In addition to her career as soloist, Isabelle Faust is also a fervent pedagogue. Today, she is a violin professor at the University of Arts in Berlin, and has given masterclasses in numerous institutions, schools, and festivals.

Isabelle Faust performs on a 1704 Stradivarius violin, named “The Sleeping Beauty”.