Hélène Schmitt is a prize-winning French

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist and a professor of

baroque violin A Baroque violin is a violin set up in the manner of the baroque period of music. The term includes original instruments which have survived unmodified since the Baroque period, as well as later instruments adjusted to the baroque setup, and moder ...

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the Parisian area, located from its Kilometre zero, centre. It is a Subprefectures in ...

. Schmitt first started out as a

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

ian before specialising in

baroque music Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transiti ...

. She spent 10 years in

Bâle , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), ...

, next to Chiara Banchini and

Jesper Bøje Christensen Jesper Bøje Christensen (born 3 December 1944) is a Danish harpsichordist and music researcher, especially in the field of basso continuo. Life Born in Copenhagen, Christensen was a lecturer in historical composition, continuo and performance ...

. Nowadays, she is very close to

Jörg-Andreas Bötticher Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (born 1964) is a German harpsichordist, organist and musicologist. Life Bötticher was born in Berlin. After several years of music lessons and experience as a keyboarder in a band in his youth, he studied at the Schola ...

and

Rolf Lislevand Rolf Lislevand (30 December 1961 in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian performer of Early music specialising on lute, vihuela, baroque guitar and theorbo. Biography From 1980 to 1984, Lislevand studied classical guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Mu ...

with whom she often plays in concert.

Prizes

Musica Antiqua Bruges The MA Festival Brugge, short for the festival Musica Antiqua Bruges in Bruges, Belgium, is a festival of early music and historically informed performances, started in 1960. The program includes concerts, master classes, conferences, visits in t ...

, as a soloist, 1993 * Van Wassenaer in Amsterdam, 1994 * Schmelzerpreis in

Melk Melk (; older spelling: ) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,257 (as of 2012). It is best known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery ...

, Austria, 1996

Discography

* Marco Uccellini (1610–1680) – ''Œuvres pour violon'' (1999) *

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

(1685–1750) – ''pièces pour violon et basse continue'' (2000) *

Ignazio Albertini Ignazio Albertini (''Albertino'') (c. 1644 – 22 September 1685) was an Italian Middle Baroque violinist and composer. Very little is known about Albertini's life. He may have been born in Milan, but first surfaces in Vienna, in a letter excha ...

(1644–1685) – ''sonates pour violon et basse continue''. (2002). *

Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli (c. 9 March 1690/1691, Leghorn - 1772, London), after 1734 Anglicised to ''John Stephen Carbonell'', was an Italian-born British composer and violinist, who later abandoned his musical career to become a vintner under ...

(1690–1772) – ''sonates pour violon et basse continue''. (2003). *

(1685–1750) – ''Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato – I et II''. (2005). *

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1623between 29 February and 20 March 1680) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he seems to have arrived in Vienna during the 1630 ...

(ca.1620-1680) – ''Sonatae a violino solo''. (2007). *

Nicola Matteis Nicola Matteis (Matheis) (fl. c. 1650 – after 1713) was the earliest notable Italian Baroque violinist in London, whom Roger North judged in retrospect "to have been a second to Corelli," and a composer of significant popularity in his time, t ...

– (ca.1670–ca.1698) ''Ayrs for the violin''. (2009) * Mozart and Beethoven – ''Sonates pour pianoforte & violon''. (2011) *

Heinrich Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl Li ...

, Rosary Sonatas (Label Aeolus).

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schmitt, Helene 21st-century French violinists 21st-century women musicians French women classical violinists Baroque-violin players Living people French performers of early music Women performers of early music Year of birth missing (living people)