Christian Schmitt, Orchestra da Camera di Perugia
Biography Christian Schmitt, Orchestra da Camera di Perugia
Christian Schmitt
studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon and at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe where he won top prizes. Then he improved his skill with renowned masters such as Thomas Indermühle, Maurice Bourgue, Paul Dombrecht and Heinz Holliger. In 1992 he was awarded first prize in music from the Fördergemeinschaft in Freiburg (European Cultural Foundation). During 20 years he performed as oboe soloist in Sinfonieorchester Basel and left it in 2012 to devote himself to the Stuttgart Musikhochschule’s class where he was appointed Professor in 2008, succeeding Prof. Ingo Goritzki.
He is as the cutting age of contemporary creation for the oboe and several pieces have been written for him by different composers as the French Vincent Paulet and Laurent Riou, the Italians Jacopo Baboni Schilingi and Nicola Sani, the Germans Hans Tutschku and Dirk Michael Kirsch… which were created in recent years at the Maison de Radio-France Paris, Birmingham Concert Hall, Istituzione Universitaria dei concerti di Roma, Academia Chigiana Siena… He has performed as a soloist under the baton of famous conductors such as Nello Santi, Armin Jordan, Marcello Viotti, Heinz Holliger, Walter Weller…
A collaboration with the pianist Alessandra gentile in 2018 resulted in the production of on CD dedicated to Jewish composers of the 20th century with original pieces for oboe and piano. He recorded also for the Schweitzer Radio DRS, Radio Suisse Romande, Radio-France France Musique the Südwestrundfunk and the Bayrischer Rundfunk…
Christian Schmitt is invited for many recitals and master-classes in Europe (Germany, Spain, Italy, England, Romania, Portugal, Russia, Czech Republic, Swiss….) and also by universities in North America (Columbia-New York, Austin-Texas), South Korea (Seoul), China (Beijing, Shanghaï, Hong Kong), Japan (Tokyo), Argentina (Buenos Aires)… He served as jury for the Muri Competition in Switzerland, and for the prestigious ARD Oboe Competition in Munich.
