Florian Schmidt-Bartha enjoys a varied career as a soloist and chamber musician.

He has performed in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Academy of Arts New York, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Mariinsky Concert Hall, the Konzerthaus Blaibach, the Bilkent Concert Hall Istanbul and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Alongside chamber music partners such as Boris Brovtsyn, Timothy Ridout, 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 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 Ia i, the National Chamber Orchestra of Moldova, the Polish Chamber ș 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.

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, singer Clarry Bartha and violist Reiner Schmidt, since 2022.