In 1977, at the age of 14, Faust was accepted as a student of Siegfried Palm at the Cologne Conservatory of Music, where he made his Master's degree with distinction.
Supported by a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service he went to the Manhattan School of Music in New York to study with Bernard Greenhouse in 1978/79.
[5] He gave masterclasses in Germany, Australia and Japan [6] As a soloist he has appeared with Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink und Simon Rattle[7] As the artistic leader of the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic he created many prizewinning CDs between 1990 and 2012.
[8][9] He was a founding member of Ensemble Wien-Berlin Nonett, the Schönberg-Trio[10] and the Berliner Barock Solisten.
He appeared in chamber music concerts and recordings with artists as Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Sarah Chang, James Levine, Alexander Lonquich, Albrecht Mayer, Emmanuel Pahud, Maurizio Pollini, Mitsuko Uchida and others.