Since his debut at the Salzburg Festival as solo partner of Sir Yehudi Menuhin in 1986, Benjamin Schmid has developed into one of the most important violinists of our time with his worldwide, concert activity in around 3000 live concerts.
Winning the Carl Flesch Competition in London in 1992, where he was also awarded the Mozart Prize, the Beethoven Prize and the Audience Prize, brought the Vienna-born violinist Benjamin Schmid his international breakthrough, along with other competition prizes.
Since then, he has performed on the world's most important stages with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandthaus Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich.
The 2024/25 CD releases include Paganini's chamber music with guitar, Kodaly Duo with Andreas Brantelid and a Fritz Kreisler CD for his 150th anniversary, in which Benjamin Schmid also presents a modern violin concerto by Georg Breinschmid.
Some of Benjamin Schmid's more than 60 CDs have been awarded the Opus Klassik Prize (several times), the German Record Prize (as the only violinist in the classical and jazz categories), the Echo Klassik Prize, Grammophone Editor's Choice or the Strad Selection. The violin works of W. A. Mozart are a focus of his repertoire, which has been continuously awarded prizes.