Benjamin Schmid

• Violinist

Biography

Other engagements led Benjamin Schmid to leading orchestras such as the Philharmonia, Royal Concertgebouw and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, Gewandhausorchester zu Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchestra Zürich, the National Symphony Orchestra Washington and the Gulbenkian Orchestra and many others.

He has been heralded as “one of the most valuable of today’s golden-age-violinists“ (The New York Sun), with his work described as “a violin classic” (The Strad). Schmid is also a sought-after jazz violinist.