GIORA SCHMIDT

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Praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as "impossible to resist, captivating with lyricism, tonal warmth, and boundless enthusiasm," violinist Giora Schmidt has appeared as soloist with many prominent symphony orchestras around the globe including Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Canada’s National Arts Centre, Toronto, Vancouver and the Israel Philharmonic. 

In recital and chamber music, Giora has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, San Francisco Performances, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and Tokyo's Musashino Cultural Hall. Festival appearances include the Ravinia Festival, the Santa Fe and Montreal Chamber Music Festivals, Bard Music Festival, Scotia Festival of Music and Music Academy of the West. He has collaborated with eminent musicians including Yefim Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum and Michael Tree.

Born in Philadelphia to professional musicians from Israel, Giora began playing the violin at the age of four. A graduate of the Juilliard School, his teachers have included Geoffrey Michaels, Patinka Kopec, Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman. Committed to education and sharing his passion for music, Giora is currently on the artist faculty at New York University (NYU Steinhardt) and Orford Musique Academy (Quebec) in the summer. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School and Perlman Music Program. Through technology and social media, he continues to find new ways of reaching young violinists and music lovers around the world. 

He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, The Classical Recording Foundation's Samuel Sanders award, and was a Starling Fellow at the Juilliard School. 

Giora plays a c. 1830 violin by Giuseppe Rocca and strings kindly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna.
 


PRESS

Cleveland Plain Dealer
”High on individuality, Schmidt's rendition of the great [Tchaikovsky Concerto] was impossible to resist, captivating with lyricism, tonal warmth, and boundless enthusiasm. Where so many performances are carbon copies, this one was his alone.”

The Chronicle Herald
“Schmidt can teach you more about Bach and the violin by just drawing his bow across the strings. His musical mind runs to clarity of musical design, not just illumination of its architecture, but also dramatic recreation of musical line and counter melody, firmly supported by a bass line, making them light up one after another and sometimes all together like a virtual string trio.”

The Miami Herald
”…[with] an acutely focused gleaming sound, Schmidt also possesses a daunting technical arsenal and sailed through the bravura passages of the outer movements [of the Mendelssohn] with remarkably even articulation at a rapid tempo, without breaking a sweat.”

South Florida Classical Review
”Schmidt clearly can make the violin do whatever he wants.”

Newsday
”...Schmidt held the audience rapt. There was not a cough or rustle to be heard.
[He] made this most familiar of concerti [the Beethoven] sound fresh, almost improvisatory, as if the music had never been heard before.”

ReviewVancouver
”Stunning silky tone, technical wizardry, and immensely stylish playing.”

 

 

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