After winning the renowned Leopold Mozart Competition and the Paganini Competition at a very young age, she soon gave regular performances with the world’s major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonics, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Les Siècles and the Baroque Orchestra Freiburg.

This led to close and sustained collaborations with conductors like Andris Nelsons, Giovanni Antonini, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Jakub Hrusa, Klaus Mäkelä, Robin Ticciati oder Sir Simon Rattle.

Isabelle Faust’s vast artistic curiosity includes all eras and forms of instrumental cooperation. In addition to big symphonic violin concertos this includes for instance Schubert’s octet with historical instruments as well as Stravinsky’s "L’Histoire du Soldat" with Dominique Horwitz or Kurtág’s "Kafka Fragments" with Anna Prohaska. With great commitment she renders an outstanding service to the performance of contemporary music: Recent world premieres include works by Péter Eötvös, Brett Dean, Ondřej Adámek and Rune Glerup.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season include concerts with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Boston Symphony, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. She tours with Il Giardino Armonico in Europe and in Japan. Isabelle Faust is Artist in Residence at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2024.

She performs chamber music with her long-standing duo partner Alexander Melnikov, as well as in a trio with Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras. She interprets Schubert's String Quintet and his String Quartet in G major historically with Antoine Tamestit, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Christian Poltéra.

Numerous recordings have been unanimously praised by critics and awarded the Diapason d’or, the Grammophone Award, the Choc de l’année and other prizes. The most recent recordings include Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), works for violin and orchestra by Pietro Locatelli (with Il Giardino Armonico) and works for solo violin by Biber, Matteis, Pisendel, Vilsmayr and Guillemain. Isabelle Faust presented further popular recordings among others of the Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as violin concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alban Berg under the direction of Claudio Abbado.

2024/2025