Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt

Already during his studies with Aldo Parisot at the Juilliard School in New York and David Geringas at the Musikhochschule Lübeck Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt won many important prizes: First Prize of the German National Music Competition in Bonn, First Prize at the International Australasian Cello Competition in New Zealand and at the International Music Competitions in Bayreuth and Markneukirchen in Germany. At the International Rostropovitch Competition in Paris the international jury headed by Mstislav Rostropovitch awarded him the "Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris" and in addition the Prize for contemporary music. He is also a prize winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the International Leonard Rose Cello Competition in the USA.

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt has performed in Europe, Russia, Japan and the USA as a soloist with orchestras as prestigious as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, Sinfonia Varsovia, Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras as well as the Prague Philharmonia under the batons of Charles Dutoit, Gerd Albrecht, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jiri Belohlavek, Vassili Sinaiski, Andrey Boreyko, Hugh Wolff, Heinz Wallberg, Heinz Rögner, Marek Janowski and many others.

He has performed in worldwide renowned venues as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Philharmonic Hall in Munich, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Theatre du Champs Elysee, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, the Carnegie Hall and the Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, as well as in the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt devotes himself also to chamber music and has collaborated with artists as Lang Lang, Christoph Eschenbach, Emanuel Ax, Gil Shaham, Nicolaj Znaider, Leonidas Kavakos, Kyoko Takezawa, Miriam Fried, Edgar Meyer and David Shifrin. From 2000 to 2002 he was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center in New York.

His first CD for Sony Classical - "french impressions-" was released in autumn 2001. In 2004 Sony Classical released his the second recording including all cello concertos by Sergei Prokofiev. The Capriccio label released his recording of Bloch’s "Voice in the Wilderness".

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt holds a professorship at the University of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden and at the "Universität der Künste" in Berlin. He plays on an instrument built by Matteo Goffriller, which previously belonged to Hugo Becker.

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