Amandine Beyer studied violin at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the class of Chiara Banchini, also benefiting from the teaching of Christophe Coin, Hopkinson Smith, and Pedro Memelsdorff.
In 2001, she won the First Prize at the Antonio Vivaldi Competition in Turin.
Since then, she has performed worldwide as a soloist and concertmaster, as well as with her own ensemble, Gli Incogniti, founded in 2006.
The group approaches Baroque and Classical repertoire — Bach, Vivaldi, Couperin, Haydn, Mozart — in a spirit of freedom, pleasure, and sharing.
She performs chamber music with partners such as Pierre Hantaï, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andreas Staier, and Giuliano Carmignola, ranging from the Baroque to the Romantic period.
In 2015, she founded the Kitgut Quartet, a string quartet that performs exclusively on historical instruments.
Her discography, both as a soloist and with Gli Incogniti, has been unanimously acclaimed by critics and has received the highest honors: Diapason d'Or, Choc de l'année, Gramophone Editor's Choice, and the ffff from Télérama.
She has taught violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 2010.
In 2017, she founded, together with Gli Incogniti, a chamber music academy for young Baroque ensembles, which also includes body-work workshops.
Since 2025, she has served as the musical director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes.