About Stefan Schmid

Stefan is pianist and keyboard player, improviser, sound designer & engineer, live and studio player.

Stefan has numerous releases with his main project Zuco 103 after being part of the 90’s acid jazz scene of Amsterdam with New Cool Collective and their Big Band offshoot.

He worked with top-rated artists as a studio musician and producer, recording with heroes as Lee Perry, Airto Moreira and Joe Jackson.

Schmid has a long experience with live sequencing and a love for electronic music which made him collaborate with numerous musicians (a/o Paul Weller, The Metropole Orchestra, Rednosedistrikt, Tom Trago, Jesse van Ruller, Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Raise the Roof and Awanto3) , vocalists, DJ’s, MC’s and electronic music producers.

Stefan Schmid is a long time Ableton Live, LogicPro and ProTools user.
His latest project, Los Calxunxos Tuyos (with Jos de Haas) plays fully improvised dance music with

the sound of an organ, drum computers, samplers and live percussion.

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Stefan Schmid played with a/o:

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Jesse van Ruller, Tony Lakatos, Ack van Rooyen, John Engels, Fleurine, Mark Lotz, Maarten Ornstein, Mark Murphy, Airto Moreira, The Metropole Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Candy Dulfer, Caro Emerald, Jarmo Hoogendijk, Johannes Enders, John Schröder, Alan Praskin, Bill Elgart, Martijn Fink, New Cool Collective, 3 Prima Pistazien, Franz Dannerbauer's Music Liberation Unit, Till Martin, Klaus Doldinger's Passport, Dusko Goykovich, Marcos Suzano, Lee Perry, Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Awanto3, Kid Sublime, Tom Trago  and is a regular sub in the bands Koffie and Mabassa.

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Besides all this Stefan also gives music production lessons at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, works as a teacher for music theory, sounddesign and music production for the Amsterdam PACT/ROCvA Producer school. and has kept on working on other projects  in his own recording & producing Studio D Amsterdam. new side hustles are Live Sound and band/project coaching.