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| Christian Schmitt |
| GEN |
| Born | |
| Germany | |
| Studies | |
| Germany | USA | |
| Highlights | |
| Berlin Philharmony Debut 2007 | Lucerne KKL | Zurich Tonhalle | Lucerne Festival | |
| Prizes | |
| 2nd Prize "Dom zu Speyer" | 1st Prize and Audience Prize Bach Competition Wiesbaden | Special Prize Tokyo Organ Competitiono | Prize of the German Music Competition Berlin | European Soloist Prize "Pro Europa" | |
| Recordings | |
| Brilliant Classics | SR/Audite | Mons Records Classic | IFO Records | |
| Short Biography | |
| After invitations by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Lucerne Festival or the Kölner Akademie, Christian Schmitt (*1976) is one of the most demanded organists of his generation. He studied sacred music (A-Exam) and concert level (passed with distinction) in Saarbrücken. Christian Schmitt studied also with James David Christie (Boston) and Daniel Roth (Paris). The scholar of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ and the „Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben” won more than ten national and international organ and music competitions, such as Atlanta, Brügge, Calgary, Philadelphia, Tokyo and the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb (2001). 2003 he was awarded the Solistenpreis of the European Foundation for Culture “Pro Europa”. Christian Schmitt is giving concerts all over the world – among others at the KKL Lucerne, at the Tonhalle Zürich, the Berliner Philharmonic and Berliner Konzerthaus, the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Konzerthaus Vienna. He has been playing together with the Bamberger Symphonics, the Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn as well as the major Radio Symphony Orchstras (BR, NDR, MDR, SR and RSB). Christian Schmitt is working together with Juliane Banse, Sibylla Rubens, Martin Grubinger, Michael Gielen, Wen-Sinn Yang, Reinhard Goebel, Roy Goodman, Chrisoph Poppen, Sir Roger Norrington or Marek Janowski, among others. During the Season 2011 he gave his debut at the Mozarteum Salzburg, with the NDR-Choire and at the Händelfestspiele Göttingen. Christian Schmitt had been invited to the Konzerthaus in Vienna as well as for orchestra tours to Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. Christian Schmitt is teaching at the University of Music Saar. Regularly he is invited as visiting professor to the Universities of Music in Boston, Cremona, Oslo, Mexico, Moscow, Seoul, Tashkent and Bogota. During the summer term 2011 he was teaching the class of Prof. Jürgen Essl at the University of Music in Stuttgart. Christian Schmitt was a member for the jury of the competition “Jugend Musiziert”, “Soli Deo Gloria” in Moscow and the German music competition 2010. Until now he has published more than 20 CDs as a Soloist as well as recordings for all radio stations of the ARD. Because of his recordings of modern, scientific complete editions of the works of G.F. Händel (Publ. T. Koopman) and F.X. Brixis (Butz-Verlag) he was merging the knowledge of musical scientific research with the musical practice. His most recent recordings are works for orchestra and organ by Charles-Marie Widor, together with the Bamberger Symphoniker. Christian Schmitt is working on several complete recordings of Koechlin, Widor, Gubaidulina and Pachelbel (by M. Belotti) for the label CPO. Together with soprano Juliane Banse and cellist Wen-Sinn Yang, Christian Schmitt recorded several works by Liszt and of composers surrounding him for a music film. This film had been broadcasted on ARTE on occasion of the 200th anniversary of Liszt. 2011/2012 If you wish to revise this biography, please contact Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management (office@msbuhl.com). Please use material of the current season only. | |
