Leila Schayegh – Violine

Leila Schayegh is a sought-after soloist and chamber musician who performs on the most important stages of the early music scene. Since 2010, she has been a lecturer at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she leads a class for violin in period scale and regularly conducts workshops and courses at universities, academies, and for orchestras. Her repertoire is impressive in its breadth – historically informed performance from the early Baroque to the late Romantic period is second nature to her. Her recordings have been awarded the Diapason d’Or de l’année in 2015 and 2016, the Editor’s Choice award from Grammophone, and a place on the Best List of the German Record Critics' Award. In 2024, she was also awarded the Swiss Music Prize.

The course is aimed at music students and trained violinists and violists, advanced amateurs, and, by arrangement, also modern string players who wish to explore historically informed performance practice.

Repertoire: Repertoire from the period between 1600 and 1800, of your choice