{"id":1002,"date":"2014-10-20T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/vita\/thomas-schmitz\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:52:11","slug":"thomasschmitz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/vita\/thomasschmitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Schmitz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-cbdfae75866d8f0d9b268fe6ae82d2ea\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-cbdfae75866d8f0d9b268fe6ae82d2ea img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-cbdfae75866d8f0d9b268fe6ae82d2ea .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-cbdfae75866d8f0d9b268fe6ae82d2ea av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-3574 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-3574 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0B1A0528.22a-Thomas.jpg\" alt='' title='0b1a0528-22a-thomas'  height=\"527\" width=\"1400\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0B1A0528.22a-Thomas.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0B1A0528.22a-Thomas-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0B1A0528.22a-Thomas-1030x388.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0B1A0528.22a-Thomas-705x265.jpg 705w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0B1A0528.22a-Thomas-450x169.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Thomas Schmitz received his first cello lessons at the age of nine, and already displaying a keen interest in chamber music before beginning his undergraduate studies, founded the Signum Quartet together with Annette Walther in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>His studies in the class of Claus Kanngiesser at the Musikhochschule K\u00f6ln were supplemented by a year of lessons with Dmitri Ferschtman in Amsterdam, as well as by the participation in various masterclasses with i.a. Wolfgang Boettcher (Berlin), Carter Brey (New York) and Arto Noras (Helsinki). In 1998 Thomas became a stipendiary of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>After completing his diploma in Cologne, he was accepted into the Solistenklasse of Thomas Demenga at the Musikakademie in Basel, where he graduated in 2004 with the Solistendiplom. After a season with the Essener Philharmoniker, Thomas left the orchestra so as to dedicate himself solely to his work with the Signum Quartet.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, Thomas has been a lecturer at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik K\u00f6ln.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":913,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions\/2249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}