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Biography
“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.
