Hélène Schmitt

Hélène Schmitt is a prize-winning French violinist and a professor of baroque violin in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Schmitt first started out as a chamber musician before specialising in baroque music. She spent 10 years in Bâle, Switzerland, next to Chiara Banchini and Jesper Bøje Christensen. Nowadays, she is very close to Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and Rolf Lislevand with whom she often plays in concert.

Prizes
  • Musica Antiqua Bruges, as a soloist, 1993
  • Van Wassenaer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1994
  • Schmelzerpreis in Melk, Austria, 1996

Discography
  • Marco Uccellini (1610-1680) - Œuvres pour violon (1999)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - pièces pour violon et basse continue (2000)
  • Ignazio Albertini (1644-1685) - sonates pour violon et basse continue. (2002).
  • Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli (1690-1772) - sonates pour violon et basse continue. (2003).
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato - I et II. (2005).
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca.1620-1680) - Sonatae a violino solo. (2007).
  • Nicola Matteis - (ca.1670–ca.1698) Ayrs for the violin. (2009)
  • Mozart and Beethoven - Sonates pour pianoforte & violon. (2011)
  • Heinrich Biber, Rosary Sonatas (Label Aeolus).[1]

References
  1. "Critique musicale de l'enregistrement des sonates du rosaire, sur le blog Wunderkammern.fr". Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
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