8/7/2019 Biography – Leila Schayegh

Leila Schayegh
Baroque violinist

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Leila Schayegh belongs to the most visible violinists in the current baroque music scene.

Her vivacious interpretation has placed her at the center of old music. She performes all over Europe as
a soloist or in chamber music groups and is regularly invited by modern orchestras for concerts and
masterclasses.

Leila Schayegh has developed a close collaboration with Jörg Halubek, cembalist, organist and
director. Their 2016 recording of Bach’s six obligato sonatas was awarded numerous prizes (Diapason de
l’année, Grammophone Award, Schallenplattpreis). Her collaboration with director and cembalist
Vaclav Luks led to the recordings of Benda’s violin sonatas (Diapason d’Or 2011) and Mysliveček’s violin
concertos in 2018. She’s been playing since 2008 with Gli Angéli Genève (directed by Stephan
MacLeod), in particular for the almost complete series of Bach’s cantatas. She’s recently expended her
repertoire towards the classical and romantic period, in particular with a recording of Brahms’s violin
sonatas in 2018 with Jan Schultsz for the label Glossa.

Since 2010 she is professor of baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, as successor of
Chiara Banchini. She passes to a new generation of musician her experience as well as approach of
music: an expressive interpretation based on thorough knowledge of the historical and musical context
of the period where the works were composed.

Born in Winterthur (Switzerland), she nished in 1999 her studies in modern violin with Raphaël Oleg at
the Basel Music Academy with Summa cum laude. After two years as a member of the Philharmonia
Zurich, she joined the class of Biara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she obtained in
2005 a diploma Summa cum laude. She was awarded in 2003 the rst prizes of the Alte Musiktreff in
Berlin, the Förderpreiswettbewerb der Konzertgesellschaft in München as well as Premio Bonporti in
Rovereto, Italy.

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