Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (born December 18, 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German cellist .

Life

During his studies with David Geringas and Aldo Parisot, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt was able to draw attention to himself in competitions: For example, at the International Rostropovich Competition, the jury chaired by Mstislaw Rostropovich awarded him the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the prize for contemporary art Music. He also won the prize at the German Music Competition in Bonn and first prize at the International Australasian Cello Competition in New Zealand. He is a prize winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the International Leonrad Rose Cello Competition in the USA.

Since then, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt has performed as a soloist in Europe, Russia and the USA with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin , the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin , the Radiophilharmonie des NDR, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the radio orchestras of Prague and Ljubljana, the Baltimore and Houston Symphony Orchestras as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia Prague under the conductors Marek Janowski , Donald Runnicles , Charles Dutoit , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Yutaka Sado , Hugh Wolff , Jiří Bělohlávek, Vassili Sinaiski, Gerd Albrecht, Andrey Boreyko, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Gabriel Feltz, Michael Sanderling , Nicholas Milton, Markus Poschner and Fabrice Bollon.

He was also a guest at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , where he gave concerts with Christoph Eschenbach .

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt also devotes himself intensively to chamber music, where he has performed with Lang Lang , Emanuel Ax, Gil Shaham , Isabelle Faust , Nikolaj Znaider, Leonidas Kavakos , Kyoko Takezawa, Miriam Fried, Edgar Meyer and David Shifrin. He was also a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and forms the cello duo "Cello Duello" with Jens Peter Maintz.

Concerts have taken him to the Berlin Philharmonie , the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Philharmonie am Gasteig and the Herkulessaal Munich, the Kennedy Center Washington, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs -Elysées in Paris, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Prague's Rudolfinum and Tokyo's Suntory Hall .

His CD French Impressions was released by Sony Classical in September 2001, followed by his recording of Sergei Prokofiev's cello concertos by Sony Classical in September 2004, and in 2008 his recording of Schumann and Elgar's cello concertos by Sony Classical. His recording of Bloch's Voice in the Wilderness with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was also released on the Capriccio label .

As chief conductor of the chamber orchestra Metamorphosen Berlin he founded, he recorded two CDs for Sony Classical with works by Dvořák, Suk and Tschaikowsky.

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt was awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Prize and the Diapason d'or in 2013 for his recording of the piano quartet by Carl Maria von Weber (with Isabelle Faust, Boris Faust and Alexander Melnikov). Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt plays a Matteo Gofriller violoncello that was formerly owned by Hugo Becker.

In addition to his concert activities as a soloist, he is increasingly giving concerts as a conductor. Invitations have taken him to the Chamber Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Staatskapelle St. Petersburg, the INSO Lviv, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest German Philharmonic, the Württemberg Philharmonic and the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra. Guest conductors have taken him to Switzerland, Poland and Spain.

As chief conductor of Metamorphosen Berlin, he led the ensemble at concerts in Germany, Spain and Switzerland as well as at concerts in the Konzerthaus Berlin, where the ensemble has found an artistic home with its own series. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt teaches as a professor at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , the Berlin University of the Arts and the Kronberg Academy .

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