Isaline Leloup

Isaline Leloup: Isaline is an early music bass player specialized in the Viennese bass and is leading the project « A Viennese afternoon », which consists of putting back on stage the solo repertoire of the Viennese double bass in chamber music formation on historical instruments.

Currently, she is busy with a new edition of Dittersdorf’s duet for viola and violone and an arrangement for quintet of the 18th Sperger Concerto, both recorded on this album. After receiving her master’s degree in modern double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, she studied the classical and romantic repertoire of the historical double bass. She joined a master’s program with the members of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées in partnership with the Poitiers University. During this period, she discovered the Viennese double bass and decided to devote her career to it. She studied with David Sinclair at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH) where she obtained her Master in Spezialisierter Musikalischer Performance in June 2019. She has performed in several historical ensembles such as Ausonia, Les Agrémens, Insula Orchestra, La Chambre Philharmonique, Parnasso in Festa, I Pizzicanti, Cantus Firmus. She is also principal double bass in the BOHO Strings Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she regularly collaborates with the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Because the transmission of musical knowledge is important to her, she is also teaching early and modern bass.