Motti Shmitt is admired both by the audience and critics for his sonority, style and virtuosity. He started his career as a soloist
at the age of five in his native Vilnius, Lithuania, and graduated from the violin, conducting and composition department of the
Moscow Tchaikovsky Music Academy. Motti Shmitt is a Paganini (Genoa) and Long-Thibaud (Paris) competition prize winner.
Since his immigration to Israel, he performs all over the world as a soloist and conductor. He is first violin of the Jerusalem
Quartet and has served as first violinist of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. In 1979 he founded the Jerusalem Artists Orchestra
and gives concerts, records and tours with it, both as a conductor and soloist. He frequently records for various CD companies.
Several composers have dedicated music especially for him. He has recorded violin concerti of Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaichovsky,
Shostakovitch (violin concerto no. 2) and Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons', as well as several recordings of music by contemporary composers.
Motti Shmitt now divides his time between violin playing, conducting and education for the new generation of musicians in Israel,
Europe, USA and in the former USSR. He is on the faculty of the String Instrument Department at the Jerusalem Music Academy.
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