Benjamin Schmid

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“Performances with more interest per bar than most can manage for an entire sonata. It’s terrific Bach playing: challenging, provocative and profoundly musical.” – Gramophone, July 2000 In June 2007 at Vienna Musikverein Benjamin Schmid performed the Korngold violin concerto in three concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and Seiji Ozawa. This invitation by one of the world’s finest orchestras followed Benjamin Shighly successful debut with Vienna Philharmonic at the 2004 Salzburg Festival, a festival where he has been a frequent guest for over twenty years. Schmid’s regular appearanSalzburg Festival began in 1986 with his debut with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Sir Yehudi Menuhin,has continued with a large number of orchestral concerts, recitals, chamber music and jazz recitals – most recently in recital with Hélène Grimaud and Clemens Hagen. Born in Vienna in 1968, Benjamin Schmid studied in Salzburg, Vienna and at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. He won a number of international awards, amongst the Carl Flesch Competition where he won the Mozart Prize, the Beethoven Prize and the Audience Prize! Benjamin Schmid’s repertoire is extremely broad. He regularly performs all the major works for violin and orchestra, with works by Austrian composers – Berg, Goldmark, Korngold, Kreisler, Mozart, Muthspiel, Schönberg, Webern – at the very core. Each year Schmid allocates a proportion of his time to playing chamber music. With pianist Ariane Haering he concentrates on

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Schmid, Benjamin: Concert Pieces

Mozart: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 18, 26 and 35

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin

Bach:Reflected

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24 Capriccios for Violin Solo

Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27

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Schmid, Beni: Obsession - Hommage A Grappelli

Brahms: Violin Cto. Op.77/Piano Quartet No.3

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Stradihumpa

Bach: Violin Concertos

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Benjamin/Britten/Bruch: Double Concertos

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Classic Morning Concertos

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