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Benjamin Schmid is announced as Artistic Director of Musica Vitae from Autumn 2020 

3/10/2019

Benjamin Schmid is announced as Artistic Director of Musica Vitae from Autumn 2020 for an initial two years.

Upon the announcement Andreas Lönnqvist, Orchestra Manager says:

“I am very happy to have an artist from the highest international level as our new Artistic Director. Benjamin Schmid is unique with his wide repertoire that covers everything from the classic masterpieces to contemporary music and jazz. With Benjamin’s outstanding knowledge and experience I am certain that he will continue to develop the orchestra and confirm Musica Vitae’s position as an ensemble of highest international level.”

Benjamin Schmid comments on the position:

“I am very much looking forward to being Artistic Director of the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra in the heart of South Sweden as of October 2020. Working constantly with an outstanding Ensemble like Musica Vitae is a dream task in the life of a violinist, as specially designed String Orchestra repertoire will be our intense focus, with me being primus inter pares, leading and soloing throughout our Concerts. This wonderful group of excellent musicians is willing to go on a musical journey with me which will combine established Masterworks with unheard but equally rewarding composers such as Sabina Hank, Amanda Maier, Friedrich Gulda, Mauricio Sotelo, Josef Lanner or Mieczysław Weinberg. We can’t wait to captivate our audiences with the pure joy and rewarding necessity of reinventing and reinterpreting the best of nowadays music!”

About Musica Vitae:

Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra is the ensemble that brings live music – indeed the music of life – to each and every individual member of the audience. The vast realm that is art music is handled with the utmost precision and elegance by its 15 string players. The repertoire consists of baroque and romantic as well as modernist and contemporary music from a wide variety of genres.

Listening to Musica Vitae is intimate and close, magnificent and dramatically colorful. The ensemble presents musically unconventional constellations, continually forging new ties with leading soloists, conductors and composers worldwide.

In the year 2017 Musica Vitae performed at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, and the latest CD with the orchestra, released in September 2019 was acclaimed by the press.

Musica Vitae appear on stages big and small in Sweden and abroad. Internationally, the orchestra has been warmly greeted in China, the United States, Greece, Switzerland, Germany and Spain to name but a few countries. In October 2018 Musica Vitae made a highly successful tour to Japan with sold out concerts in Tokyo and around. Their versatile repertoire is regularly seen, heard and reviewed in digital and print media.