Stephen Schmidt
Violin and viola
Phone: (804) 828-1166
E-mail: sschmidt@cavtel.net
Stephen Schmidt has been a violist with the Richmond Symphony since 1996. His pre-college, bachelor’s and Master of Music degrees are from the Juilliard School in New York City and he holds a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. His teachers have included Roberto Diaz, Paul Neubauer, Eugene Becker, Joseph DePasquale and Paul Doktor. He has participated in many music festivals, including Tanglewood, Spoleto (Italy), Bowdoin Chamber Music Festival, Kinhaven and the National Repertory Orchestra.
Schmidt currently teaches viola and violin at VCU and is the director of the Mary Anne Rennolds Chamber Concerts series. His summers are spent teaching and performing at the Performing Arts Institute in Kingston, Pa. For the past several years he has been able to pursue his interest in chamber music by performing with the Richmond Chamber Players in such works as the Debussy “Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp,” Ravel “String Quartet,” Brahms “Piano Quintet,” Barber “String Quartet,” Hartke “King of the Sun” Piano Quartet, Mozart “Flute Quartet in D,” Shostakovich “Piano Quintet,” and the Dvorak “String Quintet Op. 97.” Other recent chamber music performances have featured both of the Brahms string quintets, the Mozart “Clarinet Quintet,” Mendelssohn “String Quartet Op. 12,” Rebecca Clarke “Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale for Viola and Clarinet,” and the Kodaly “Serenade Op. 12 for Two Violins and Viola.”
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