Über Lydia Schmidl
Lydia Schmidl received, among other things, the Deutschlandstipendium, was a scholarship holder of the Mentoring Program and received the scholarship for performing musicians of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Over two years, she was accepted into the Claussen-Simon Foundation's stART.up artist scholarship. Together with cellist Marianne Gäbler she won 1st prize at the International Accordion Competition in Beltinci (Slovenia), as well as 1st prize at the Accordion festival in Nordhorn 2012 in the category accordion solo.
In 2020 Lydia Schmidl played in the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester under Alan Gilbert with a live broadcast on Arte Concert in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie. She played in concerts of the Ensemble New Babylons Bremen and worked there with composers Klaus Huber and Younghi Pagh-Paan. In December 2013 she interpreted the piece quartet by Rebecca Saunders together with the musicians Theo Nabicht, Oliver McCall and Matthias Bauer. Whilst preparing the piece the musicians worked closely with the composer during rehearsals
Together with guitarist Jorge Paz Verastegui, Lydia Schmidl founded the Lux Nova Duo. As one of the most prolific duos of their unusual instrumental combination, they consistently work on expanding the repertoire and have performed in important concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie, the Glocke Bremen or the National Theater of Costa Rica. More than 35 works by renowned composers such as Leo Brouwer, José M. Sanchez- Verdu and Mario M. Mary have been dedicated to the Lux Nova Duo. The world premiere of Brouwer's Double Concerto with String Ensemble was broadcast live from the Sendesaal Bremen on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The third CD of the duo "Inspiración Bach" was nominated for the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik"; (Genuin 2020) and received very good response in professional journals such as Rondo and international radio stations such as BBC, ORF 1, SRF 2 Kultur, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Bremen 2 .
As a soloist, Lydia Schmidl interpreted Astor Piazzolla's Años de Soledad with the Coro de madrigalistas de la Universidad Catolica under the direction of Antonio Paz (Peru). In 2017, she performed the premiere of the arrangement for accordion of Omaggio a Piazzolla by Peruvian composer Alejandro Nuñez Allauca at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg as a soloist with the Konsonanz Chamber Ensemble. In the Trio Traverse she performed with the singer Meredith Nicoll and the pianist Lémuel Grave in their project Transit, among others in the Resonanzraum Hamburg. At the Rudolf Steiner Haus she performed Sofia Gubaidulina's Et expecto with the Ensemble Viertasien. Lydia Schmidl studied with Prof. Ivan Koval at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and received vital musical impulses through her chamber music lessons with Prof. Claudia Buder. The Carl-Müllerhartung Scholarship of the Swiss Thyll Foundation enabled her to study Erasmus at the Escola superior de musica Catalunya (Barcelona) with Prof. Inaki Alberdi. In the summer of 2015, she completed the artistic master's program in accordion with Prof. Margit Kern at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
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