Gli incogniti and Amandine Beyer
Biography Gli incogniti and Amandine Beyer
Amandine Beyer
It was in Aix-en-Provence that Amandine Beyer began studying music at the age of four: recorder, then violin in Aurélia Spadaro’s class.
It is perhaps for this reason that, after completing his studies of 'modern violin' at the Paris Conservatory and having written a master's degree over K. Stockhausen, she finds the path of early music going to study in Basel with Chiara Banchini. This decisive period in his studies enables her to discover the world of rhetorical interpretation, and enjoy the contact of personalities like Hopkinson Smith, or Pedro Memelsdorff (she played several years in the medieval ensemble Mala Punica).
All these experiences have allowed her to grown as a musician and performer, and have encouraged her to start her career as itinerant violinist, giving numerous concerts worldwide. She currently divides her time between the groups in which she participates: les Cornets Noirs, the duos with Pierre Hantai, Kristian Bezuidenhout or Laurance Beyer and her own ensemble: Gli Incogniti _their cds devoted to Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Corelli's Concerti Grossi have been welcomed by the international critic as new highlights in the performance of this repertory_ while keeping a special place for teaching: she teaches in the ESMAE of Porto (Portugal) as well as masterclasses all over the world.
Her solo recording of Bach’s ,Sonatas & Partitas in 2012, has been awarded the best international critics: Diapason D’Or de l’anée, Choc de Classica de l’année, Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros, Gramophone’s Editor’s choice ... The work about this pieces continue with the spectacle 'Partita 2', choreographed and danced by Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz
Since 2010, she has begun to teach baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. In a certain way, ”un retour aux sources”!
Gli incogniti
Founded by Amandine Beyer in 2006, the ensemble takes its name from the Venetian „Accademia degli incogniti“, and attempts also to adopt the spirit of the name it bears by cultivating a taste for ‘'the unknown’' in all its forms: experimentation with sonorities, seeking out new repertoire, the rediscovery of the ‘'classics’', and so on.
Gli Incogniti reunites musicians who have met while participating in various projects over the past few years, who derive great pleasure from working and playing together and whose primary aim, in this new formation, is to convey a committed and coherent vision of the works they perform, guided by their combined sensibilities and taste. After the some excellents critics awarded by their first recording devoted to the complete violin concertos by J. S. Bach (Choc du Monde de la musique, 10 de Répertoire, “CD der Monat” from german magazine Toccata), Gli Incogniti has played at the most prestigious concert halls and early music festivals like the Opéra de Monte Carlo, the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Via Stellae (Spain), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany) or the Festival de Sablé (France)...
Their second CD, devoted to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and some previously unrecording†violin concertos (Choc du Monde de la Musique de l'anée, 10 de Repertoire), published in 2008 has been welcomed by the critic as a 'renewal' of the vivaldian discography, and for several weeks was at the top of classical music sales in France.
Their last two recordings have been dedicated to composers a little less known such as Nicola Matteis (2009) and Johann Rosenmuller (2010), were the ensemble explores different unpublished and unknown works of this two composers. The specialized critics have very well received both recordings.
