Biography

Described as "carefully colored" and "sensitive" by The Washington Post in November of 2015, Christopher Schmitt was also hailed as a “formidable talent” and “mature beyond his years” by The Santa Barbara News-Press, regarding his performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto  No. 1 with the Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestra. Having completed his doctorate at The Juilliard School in 2016, he has been sponsored for concerts by The Chopin Foundation of the United States in Miami, The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation in New York, The Embassy Series Concerts in Washington DC, and for many other performances in the Boston, New York, and Washington DC metropolitan areas and abroad. In the summer of 2011, Dr. Schmitt performed fourteen chamber music concerts at the Music at Menlo festival, and for four summers has performed and taught at the festival Málaga Clasica in Spain, as well as performing in July of 2016 in the inaugural year of his own chamber music festival in Barcelona, Classics in Catalan. A collaborator with renowned cellist Kian Soltani on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts in March 2019 and with musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra on the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage in April 2019, he also soloed with the Avanti Orchestra in February 2019, and will perform the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with them over the coming two seasons. Dr. Schmitt currently resides in Washington DC, and as pianist of The "President's Own" US Marine Chamber Orchestra, performs regularly in the White House and in concert halls across the Washington DC metropolitan area, leading a multifaceted career as chamber musician, pedagogue, and soloist. 










For further information of any kind, please contact Christopher Schmitt at ChristopherSchmittPiano@gmail.com

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