Artist · Clarinet
Jérôme Schmitt
Biography
Jérôme Schmitt, clarinet
From a very young age Jérôme Schmitt discovered his passion for music and became interested in many varied musical aesthetics.
He studied with Jean-Claude Madoni, Michel Arrignon and Jacques Di Donato and went on to receive, at the end of his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique et de Danse in Lyon, a degree in advanced musical studies in 2001. A great advocate for artistic creation, he regularly performs works from contemporary composers including B.Mantovani, P.Hurel, D. Lemaître, A.Celo, F.Durieux or indeed masters from the past, I.Stravinsky, L.Bério, C.Lefebvre, F.Donatoni, P.Boulez. Jerôme Schmitt has been the lead bass clarinet with the Orchestre Les Siècles since 2011, a unique orchestra which plays each repertoire on its respective period instruments. To this day he has played on more than 20 different original (or copies of original) clarinets and bass clarinets for prestigious concerts in the most respected international concert halls: Berlin, Amsterdam, Tokyo, London, Paris, Hong Kong. A dedicated pedagogue, he teaches at the Conservatoire in Mulhouse.