Both violinists in the quartet were students of the noted violinist Oscar Shumsky.
At the age of 16 he went to the United States to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied violin with Efrem Zimbalist, and violin and viola with Oscar Shumsky.
Her teachers included Ara Zerounian, Mischa Mischakoff, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian, the last two of which she studied under while attending the Juilliard School from 1969 to 1975.
I realized that if I were to pursue a concert career I needed something considerably more outstanding than the Camillo Camilli (an excellent violin in its class) on which I was performing.
These, as well as the 24 Caprices in all the major and minor keys (which have been recorded by Oscar Shumsky), were written during 1814-1819 when he lived in Berlin.
Oscar Wilde | Oscar | Oscar Peterson | Oscar Hammerstein II | Oscar de la Renta | Oscar De La Hoya | Oscar Pistorius | Oscar II of Sweden | Oscar the Grouch | Oscar Robertson | Oscar Shumsky | Oscar Mayer | Oscar Levant | Oscar Brashear | Oscar Niemeyer | Oscar Lopez | Oscar Isaac | Oscar Goodman | Oscar D'León | Óscar Pereiro | Oscar Marzaroli | Oscar Ichazo | Oscar Harrison | Oscar Hammerstein I | Oscar W. Greenberg | Oscar Sonneck | Óscar Romero | Oscar Kightley | Oscar I of Sweden | Oscar Brand |
In between his lessons in New York, Schmidt worked intensely with violinist Geoffrey Michaels on scales, etudes and the Sonatas and Partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach – in the tradition of Efrem Zimbalist and Oscar Shumsky.