He enjoys a varied career as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Academy of Arts and Letters New York, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Mariinsky Concert Hall, the Konzerthaus Blaibach, the Bilkent Concert Hall Istanbul, Queen Silvia Concert Hall Stockholm and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Alongside chamber music partners such as Boris Brovtsyn, Timothy Ridout, Hugo Ticciati, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, José Gallardo, Aylen Pritchin and Severin von Eckardstein, he has also appeared at festivals such as the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, the Beethovenfest Bonn, Stars of the White Nights St. Petersburg, Young Euro Classic Berlin, O/Modernt Summer Festival Stockholm and IMS Prussia Cove.
Florian has enjoyed success as a soloist with the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the North German Philharmonic Rostock, the Romanian State Philharmonic Iasi, the National Chamber Orchestra of Moldova, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the State Symphony Orchestra of Kyrgyzstan and the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra. His commitment to new music and collaboration with contemporary composers complement his work. Particularly noteworthy are Krzysztof Penderecki, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, Marc Sabat, Vladimir Tarnopolsky and the winner of the Gaudeamus Composition Prize Konstantin Heuer, who dedicated a cycle for cello and piano to him in 2024.
Since 2023, Florian, together with violist Mathis Rochat, has been a leading part of the trilateral education project ‘KulturEnsemble’, initiated by Goethe Institute in cooperation with the German and French embassies in Kyrgyzstan, which brings renowned European musicians to Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek to provide young musicians with access to quality instrumental lessons and the acquisition of new instruments. In 2024, the project was featured in a 3sat documentary.Florian Schmidt-Bartha plays a cello by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris, 1844) and lives between Berlin and his hometown of Boxberg (Baden), where he has been artistic director of the ‘Rosengartenkonzerte’, founded in 1998 by his parents, Swedish singer Clarry Bartha and Banat Swabian violist Reiner Schmidt, since 2022.
