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Isabelle Faust (born 1972 in Esslingen, Germany) is a violinist who has won multiple awards.
Biography
Faust received her first violin lessons at the age of five years.[1] She trained with Christoph Poppen and Denes Zsigmondy. After winning the Paganini Competition she lived for nine years in France, where she met her husband.[2] In 2004 she was appointed professor of violin at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives in Berlin and is the mother of a teenage son.[1] Since 1996,[1] she has performed on the "Sleeping Beauty" Stradivarius violin of 1704, on loan from Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.[3] She has also performed with Baroque-style violins and bows.[2]
1997: Gramophone Award for "Young Artist of the Year" for her first CD, the solo violin sonata and the Violin Sonata No. 1 of Béla Bartók on Harmonia mundi[6]
