STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS:
Students interested in orchestral playing won following positions:
(PARTIAL LIST, in alphabetical order)

Ken Aiso - chamber musician; member, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London.
Raushan Akhmedyarova - 1st violinist, Santa Rosa Symphony,USA.
Dorota Anderszewska - concertmaster, Bordeaux Symphony Orchestra, France.
Fumino Ando - member, Portland Symphony, Oregon.
Frederick Bardon - associate concertmaster, Lyon Opera, France
Eva Bindere - Concertmaster, Kremerata Baltika
Tamara Chang - 1st violinist, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, concertmistress, Long Beach Symphony, USA
Vesselin Demirev - concertmaster, Irving Symphony, Plano Symphony, Garland Symphony,TX; Violin faculty Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas.Former concertmaster, New Philharmonic, Sophia, Bulgaria.
Tanya Dyer - member, Fort Worth Symphony.
Florance Garel - 1st violin section, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Monaco.
Emmanuel Held   -  1st violin section, Dresden Staatskapella.
Denis Ivanov-Posin - 1st violin section, National Mannheim Opera
Liza Kerob - concertmaster, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Monaco
Nikolai Kurganov - 2nd violin section, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Sayako Kusaka - Concertmaster, Konzerthouseorkester Berlin.
Tomasz Liebig - Concertmaster, Bruckner Symphony Orchestra, Austria; Former, Bergonzi String Quartet;
Antonello Manacorda - concertmaster, Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Claudio Abbado.
Marina Manukian - 1st violin section, Pacific Symphony and the Los Angeles Opera, USA
Heime Muller - Leader, Artemis Quartet, Germany
Eugenia Pikovsky - 1st violinist, Israel Philharmonic; former: concertmaster Bern Symphony; concertmaster, Jerusalem Symphony; 1st violinist - Jerusalem Quartet, Israel
Marianna Racz - chamber musician/Choice of Bernard Haiting series; member, Concertgebouw  and Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestras.
Peter Rainer - concertmaster, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Germany; leader - Persius Ensemble.
Pieter Schoeman - leader, London Philharmonic
Xiao Hua Sheng - 1st violin section, Fort Worth Symphony.
Dorota Siuda- Concertmistress, Chamber Orchestra Sweden
Oleg Soulyga - member, Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Lindon Taylor - principal second, Los Angeles Philharmonic, USA
Daphne Volle - 1st violin section, Dallas Symphony, TX.
Kaori Yoshida - member, New York Symphonic Ensemble at Lincoln Center.
Misa Yamuro - member, Munich Philharmonic.
Qing Yung Yu  - associate concertmaster, Chicago Symphony, USA; 1st violinist -Chicago Symphony Quartet
Chan Ho Yun - faculty, Colburn School, Idyllwild Arts School, Los Angeles, USA
Yamei Yu - concertmaster, Bavarian State Orchestra (summer studies)
Mei-Mei Wei - Assoc. Concertmaster, New Orleans Symphony
Sze Hong Wong -  Associate Concertmaster, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hong Kong
Wei Xiao Zuang - member, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Former member, San Francisco Symphony 

    Students of Eduard Schmieder In Performance and Competitions

Students of Professor Schmieder maintain careers as soloists and chamber musicians in   U.S.A., Europe, and Asia. They have appeared as soloists with major orchestras such as Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Radio, Russian State, Cleveland Symphony, Rotterdam, etc.,and in solo recitals in major concert halls such as Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, Ambassador, Los Angeles, St. Martin-in-the Fields, Gulbenkian, etc.

Catherine Leonard, Pavel Sporcl, Alexandru Tomescu, Xiao Xiao Cao, Timothy Fain, Dmitri Makhtin, - became leading solo violinists in their respective countries of Ireland, Czech, Netherlands, Romania and China.

Students interested in orchestral playing won positions as leaders and 1stviolinists in  major orchestras such as Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, Dallas Symphony, Dresden Staatskapella, San Francisco Symphony, and many others. 

Prize winners in following international competitions: 

Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, Belgium, - Takagi, Tamai.

Premio Paganini International Violin Competition, Italy  - Makhtin, Croitoru, Aiso, Manacorda, Tomescu, Tchijik, Ivanchenko, Kusaka.

Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition, France - Aiso, Tomescu, Qing Yung Yu.

Sibelius International Violin Competition, Finland - Makhtin, Kusaka, Tamai.

Francescatti International Competition, France -Anderzsewska.

Tokyo International Violin Competition, Japan -Aiso, Iwatani, Kusaka.

Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, England - Siuda, Yu, Brovtsyn.

Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, France - Vieux.

Wieniawski International Violin Competition, Poland -Siuda.

Montreal International Violin Competition, Canada -Makhtin, Sporcl.

Kulenkampff International Violin Competition, Germany - Brovtsyn, Leonard.

ARD International Music Competition, Germany - Sporcl, Muller.

UNISA International Music Competition, RSA - Schoeman, Makhtin, Brovtsyn.

Kreisler International Violin Competition, Austria - Croitoru.

Taipei International Violin Competition, Taiwan -Sheng.

Beijing International Violin Competition, China -Anderszewska.

Lipitzer International Violin Competition, Italy - Kusaka, Tchijik, Taylor.

Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, Switzerland - Tomescu, Croitoru, Takagi.

International World Tour Competition, Holland - Aiso, Leonard, Fain, Yu, Sporcl.

Concertino Praga, Czehoslovakia -Sporcl, Pikovsky

Viotti International Violin Competition, Italy - Pikovsky.

Young Instrumentalist of the Year, Hong Kong - Sze Hong.

Young Concert Artists Int'l Competition, NY - Timothy Fain

Enescu International Violin Competition, Romania - Alexandru Tomescu

Numerous students received prizes and awards in national and local competitions.