Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (born 1967) is a German classical pianist and professor of piano. Life and career. Schmitt-Leonardy studied among others with Bernd Glemser, Michael Ponti, Adrian Aeschbacher, Vitaly Margulis, György Sebok and Alexis Weissenberg. He has won prizes at major pianist competitions such as for example the International Piano Competition Sergei Rachmaninoff and received cultural and sponsorship awards. As a soloist he plays with renowned orchestras such as among others the Berliner Symphoniker, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonie der Nationen and the and performs in major concert halls and  festivals worldwide. He works among others with artists such as Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Ingolf Turban, Guido Schiefen, Georg Friedrich Schenck, Maurizio Baglini, Michael Ponti and Tuncay Yılmaz as well as with the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin, the Melos Quartet, the Amati Quartet and the Rodin Quartet. Since 2007 he has taught at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot and since 2018 he has led a piano class at the International Piano Academy Brescia. From 2010 to 2017 he was Professor of Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in 2016 he received a call to  the Hanns Eisler Hochschule Berlin and in 2017 to the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he has since led a piano class. In 2020 he was appointed Vice Educational Director of the "Lang Lang" Art World in Hangzhou (China). He gives master classes among others for the "Lang Lang International Music Foundation", for the Tonkünstlerverband Bayern, and at the invitation of various festivals and universities in Canada, Russia, Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Romania, Poland, Finland, Spain, Japan, China, Malaysia and Thailand. He is also jury Member of international piano competitions.