SENL Bettina SCHMITT

Conductor
Concert Violinist
Violin (ME, IME, IGP, MBP, MTH), Ensemble
Teaching Practice with Beginners for Violin 01, 02

Contact: schmitt@mdw.ac.at

Bettina Schmitt studied violin (performance) from 1980 to 1991 at the Conservatorio di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan as well as at what is now the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating with honours from both institutions. She also participated in master classes given by Profs. Dorothy Delay (USA), Zachar Bron (Poland), Valery Klimov (Vienna), and Werner Scholz (Berlin).

Schmitt has been highly active across Austria, Italy, and Germany as a soloist and chamber musician, and she has also given solo recitals and master classes in Japan and Korea.

Schmitt also studied conducting in Vienna with Profs. Erwin Acel, Mark Stringer, and Vladimir Kiradjiev.

She has since gathered many years of experience working with student and youth orchestras at the Lilienfeld Summer Academy and at the music school in Tulln, Lower Austria.

Since 1992, Schmitt has taught violin performance students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in collaboration with Profs. Michael Frischenschlager and Eduard Zienkowski while at the same time building up her own class at the Tulln Music School whose members have since won numerous prizes at Prima La Musica competitions.

Since 2000, she has served as head conductor and artistic director of the symphony orchestra Philharmonie Marchfeld, which gives regular concerts in Austria and Slovakia and has also toured China and Japan.

Bettina Schmitt has taught at the mdw’s Joseph Hellmesberger Department of String Instruments, Guitar and Harp in Music Education since 2010.

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