Isaline LELOUP

« The double bass is above all a possibility to communicate emotion and to arouse the imagination. »

Isaline specializes in historically informed performances of music and leads the project « A Viennese

Afternoon ». This project revives the solo repertoire of the Viennese violone in chamber music settings. She released her first album in May 2021.

After a master’s degree in modern double bass in Brussels, she joined a master’s program with the members of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées in partnership with Poitiers University. During this

program, she concentrated her research on musical treatises and the study of style in the classical and romantic repertoire.

During this period, she discovered the Viennese violone and dedicated herself to it. She studied with David Sinclair at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH), where she obtained her Master’s in Spezialisierter Musikalischer Performance in June 2019. After that, she earned her Master’s degree with Margaret Urquhart at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (NL). During this Master’s program, she focused on earlier repertoire with the 8’ g violone and its close relation to vocal music.

She also researched the possible use of the Viennese violone in the orchestral works of Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn. This research is available online under the name “The Viennese violone:

A 'Viennoiserie' with 5 spices.” She performs with several historical ensembles, including Anima Eterna Brugge, Vox Luminis, B-rock

Orchestra, A Nocte Temporis, Ricercar Consort, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (NL), Tafelmusik (Toronto), Ensemble Ausonia, Ensemble Tsurà (Basel), and I Tempi (Basel).

Because transmitting musical knowledge is important to her, she teaches both early and modern

bass at several music schools in Brussels, Liège, and Wavre (Belgium).