Sabine Toutain was born in Le Mans in 1966; she began her musical studies there and then entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1982.
She perfected herself in Jean Moullière[2]'s string quartet class in order to take part in international competitions.
Since 1990, she has been performing in many European concert halls and festivals, either as a soloist (Bartok and Walton's concertos with the Orchestre national de France for example) or as part of the Turner Trio concerts where she played with two other musicians of the Orchestre national: harpist Isabelle Perrin[4] and flautist Philippe Pierlot.
[5] She is the dedicatee of new works, notably Episode Six by Betsy Jolas and in 1989 Chant II by Ramon Lazkano, for viola and tapes.
[6] Sabine Toutain notably recorded the Goldberg Variations (string trio) by Johann Sebastian Bach,[7] trios and sonatas by Arnold Bax,[8] the Sonata for flute, viola and harp by Claude Debussy,[9] the sextuor pour piano, cordes et vent [fr] by Ernst von Dohnányi,[9] Itinerario de Luz by Enrique Macias,[10] the concerto for viola and orchestra by Serge Nigg,[1] Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss.