Rainer Schmidt

Rainer Schmidt was profoundly influenced by Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet, and later by Ivry Gitlis and Tatjana Grindenko, as well as by Nicolaus Harnoncourt. He studied with Atila Aydintan in Hanover and with Dorothy DeLay in Cincinnati.

In 1987 he joined the Hagen Quartet, and in 1989 he founded the Ravinia Piano Trio, with which he has performed internationally. He has taught chamber music at the Mozarteum University since 1988 and was appointed Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Basel Music Academy in 2007.