Marlies Schmid was born in South Tyrol (Italy) in 1996 and had her first violin lessons at the age of seven. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Conservatorio di Bolzano in the class of Ottavia Kostner and later Gisela Curtolo, graduating in 2015. Over the following two years she took private lessons with Klara Flieder in Salzburg and Eszter Haffner in Vienna.
She has attended masterclasses with Lukas Hagen, Alexander Kerr, Winfried Rademacher, Alfred Brendel, Konrad von Abel and the Armida Quartet, among others. She won several awards at the Austrian youth competition “Prima la musica”, both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. In 2018 she began her Master in Music Performance at the Zurich University of the Arts in the class of Rudolf Koelman, graduating in 2020, and then completed a second master’s in music education there. A passionate chamber musician, Marlies Schmid teaches at the Yamaha School in Zurich and privately alongside her concert work.
Source: alas-quartett.ch