Carsten Schmidt

Künstlerische Abschlussprüfung “mit Auszeichnung,” Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Germany. MM, Artist Diploma, Indiana University. MMA, DMA, Yale University. Extensive performance and broadcast activities as soloist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, North America, and Japan; numerous master classes, lectures, and workshops at educational and research institutions; special interests include keyboard literature and performance practices, early keyboard instruments, the music of Ernst Krenek, relationship of performance, analysis, hermeneutics, and recent gender studies, interaction of poetry and music in song repertoire; member, artistic board, Volte Foundation for Chamber Music, the Netherlands; artistic director, International Schubert Festival 1997; research fellow, Newberry Library; fellow, German National Scholarship Foundation. SLC, 1998–