Amandine Beyer

The French violinist Amandine Beyer appears regularly as a soloist at international concert halls worldwide, and has performed with leading Baroque ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra of Toronto. In 2006 she founded her own ensemble, Gli Incogniti.

In the 2025/26 season she has toured Spain with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia and performed with Gli Incogniti in cities including Vancouver and New York, appeared at La Monnaie in Brussels in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dance project Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione and toured Europe with a programme of works by Buxtehude.

With her orchestra Gli Incogniti, named after the Accademia degli Incogniti, one of the most progressive academic societies in 17th-century Venice, she regularly performs works from Couperin, Vivaldi and Bach to Haydn and Mozart. Together she and the ensemble have appeared at international festivals and renowned concert halls such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York.

Her chamber music partners include Kristian Bezuidenhout, Giuliano Carmignola, Pierre Hantaï and Andreas Staier. Their repertory reaches from the Baroque to the Romantic eras. In 2015 she founded the Kitgut Quartet, which performs on historical instruments and explores string quartet repertory from the beginnings of the genre to its golden age.

Amandine Beyer’s discography has received critical acclaim and won numerous awards, including the Diapason d’Or, the Choc de l’année, the Gramophone Editor’s Choice and 4F de Télérama. In October 2025 her most recent recording with Gli Incogniti, Bach from Italy, was released on the harmonia mundi label.

Amandine Beyer studied violin at the Paris Conservatoire and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 2001 she won first prize at the Vivaldi International Music Competition in Turin.

A committed music educator, she teaches at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and in 2017 with Gli Incogniti she founded a chamber music academy for young Baroque ensembles. Since 2025 she has also been music director of the national youth orchestra Français des Jeunes.