Stefan Karl Schmid

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Stefan Karl Schmid (born February 13, 1984 in Darmstadt ) is a German-Icelandic musician ( clarinet , soprano and tenor saxophone , composition) of modern jazz .

Life

Schmid learned the saxophone from the age of nine and was taught by Frank Metzger at the city music school in Bad Dürkheim until 2002. He also had piano lessons. From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Youth Jazz Orchestra, with which he toured the USA, Korea and Brazil. After completing his preparatory training at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz, he studied jazz saxophone and music education at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Music with Klaus Graf , Steffen Schorn and Hubert Winter from 2003 to 2007 . After graduating with honors, he studied composition and arrangement at the Cologne University of Music and Dance between 2008 and 2010 with Frank Reinshagen and Joachim Ullrich and deepened his instrumental skills with a Fulbright scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

In 2005 he joined the BuJazzO under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer , of which he was a member until 2008. He leads his own tentet extended and is one of the big bands of Karl Podack ( Swing is my thing ) and Florian Ross , but also plays in the combos of Michel Reis , Sebastian Böhlen and James Whitling ( Burbank ) and accompanied Torsten Goods ( Irish Heart ) . He played on concerts and tours through Europe, the USA, Korea and Brazil with musicians such as Bobby Shew , John Ruocco , Al Porcino , John Hollenbeck , Ack van Rooyen , Theo Bleckmann , Maceo Parker and the WDR Big Band Cologne .

Stefan Karl Schmid is the older brother of the actor Andreas Helgi Schmid .

Prizes and awards

Schmid was one of the first prizewinners at the Skoda Big Band Jazz Prize in 2002 and in 2003 he won first prize in the solo competition Jugend jazzt in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2006 he won the International Competition for Soloists and Ensemble, Kerkrade with the Orka Quartet. In 2008 he was the first recipient of the Bruno Rother Memorial Scholarship for composition and arrangement with the Stefan Schmid Quartet; in the same year he received a scholarship from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation with the trio BIS . In 2012 he was awarded the Sparda Jazz Award of the Düsseldorf Jazz Rally . In 2013 he was in the final round of the New German Jazz Prize with the Olaf Lind Quartet and took first place in the BuJazzO composition competition with his piece Persistence of Memory . In the same year he received the Horst & Gretl Will scholarship from the city of Cologne. Also in 2013 he received the jazz prize of the city of Worms “for his technically adept playing on the tenor and soprano saxophone as well as the clarinet and flute.” In addition, the jury explained their decision “because of his qualities as a composer and arranger”.

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV (PDF; 38 kB)
  2. ↑ a b Bujazzo portraits of musicians  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / projekte.musikrat.de  
  3. ^ Cologne: Horst-und-Gretl-Will-Scholarship Jazzthing
  4. ↑ Worms Jazz Prize
  5. ^ Thoralf Koß: Schmid's Huhn: Golden Spheres (Review). musikreviews.de, May 1, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Linke: Stefan Karl Schmid: “Pajama” - Started early in the morning. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 17, 2020, accessed May 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Stefan Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Icelandic musician (clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone, composition) of modern jazz
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt