William Schmidt

About William

William Schmidt has two Masters degrees in piano performance from the University of Melbourne and the Music and Arts University of Vienna, Austria. He has performed many solo piano recitals in Melbourne and interstate, including live-to-air performances on 3MBS radio and ABC Classic FM. William has given many solo piano recitals in Melbourne and interstate, including live-to-air performances on 3MBS radio and ABC Classic FM, and several solo concert programs at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick: “From Madrid to Melbourne” (2019), “Sans Paroles” (2021) and “To Spring” (2022), the latter of which was part of the Flinders Quartet's August residency at Tempo Rubato. William performed in nine concerts as part of the 2022 Albury Chamber Music Festival, both as a soloist and in collaboration with Dr. Mario Dobernig, Sally-Anne Russell, Yi Wang, John Bolton-Wood and others. William was also a soloist for the 3MBS Kawai Live Sessions at the Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio in 2021. As a collaborative pianist William works regularly or periodically with organisations including Box Hill Chorale, Promac Productions, the Art of Sound Orchestra, Victoria Chorale, the Ringwood Eisteddfod, the Monash Youth Music Festival, Cantate Singers, the National Institute of Youth Performing Arts, Sing Australia, Suzuki Music and the Spark Youth Dance Company, and is a sought-after accompanist for exams and recitals at the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music at Monash University and the AMEB. As a composer and arranger, William has had his commissioned works performed by musicians and ensembles such as Elyane Laussade, Glenn Riddle, Marianne Rothschild, Collide Trio, and the Preston Symphony Orchestra.William has been a featured composer for the Camberwell Music Society, and his piano and chamber works were the subject of a two-hour episode of the 3MBS program “Illuminations”. His violin and piano composition “Argentinian Etching” appears on the 2014 Move Records CD “The Sky is Melting”. William has received the Australian Music Foundation's Inaugural Guy Parsons Award, the Australian National Piano Award's 2008 Travelling Scholarship, an Australian Postgraduate Award from the federal government, first prizes in the Australian Youth Piano Recital and the National Pharmacies Piano Concerto Competition, various University of Melbourne scholarships and many other awards.

Contact William Schmidt

Email: willjsch@gmail.com