Rainer Schmidt (born 1964) is a German classical violinist.
Life and career
Rainer Schmidt studied at the
University of Music, Theatre and Media Hanover, where he graduated with a soloist diploma. He also studied at the College Conservatory of the
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public university, public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1819 and had an enrollment of over 53,000 students in 2024, making it the ...
with
Walter Levin from the
LaSalle Quartet.
Since 1987, he has been a member of the
Hagen Quartet, where he plays the second violin.
In 1989, he founded the Ravinia Trio.
Since 1988, Schmidt has been teaching at the
Mozarteum Salzburg and between 2002 and 2007 at the
Reina Sofía School of Music
The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...
in Madrid. Since October 2007, he has held the professorship for violin and chamber music at the
Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel.
Prof. Rainer Schmidt
on the website of the , retrieved 16 October 2020.
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German classical violinists
German male classical violinists
Academic staff of Mozarteum University Salzburg
1964 births
Living people