Hélène Schmitt Explained

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

Schmitt first started out as a chamber musician before specialising in baroque music. She spent 10 years in Bâle, 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, 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Critique musicale de l'enregistrement des sonates du rosaire, sur le blog Wunderkammern.fr . 2018-01-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180901034517/http://wunderkammern.fr/2016/11/12/le-feu-sous-la-grace-les-sonates-du-rosaire-de-biber-par-helene-schmitt/ . 2018-09-01 . dead .