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Melbourne-born pianist and composer Will Schmidt is currently undertaking a Master’s degree in performance at the Victorian College of the Arts having completed his Bachelor degree at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne in 2008. Awards include the Sir Rupert Hamer Arts Scholarship, the Eric and Linda Jullyan Memorial Scholarship, the Ronald William Capon Prize, the Ormond Exhibition, the McConnan Memorial Trust Prize, the inaugural Guy Parsons Award, and the Australian National Piano Award’s Travelling Scholarship. Having passed LMusA with distinction in 2005 he was awarded the VMTA’s Kault Prize for Most Outstanding Diploma candidate. Will performs and records regularly for both ABC FM and 3MBS as both soloist and chamber musician, and in 2008 he performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 1 with the Faculty of Music Orchestra.
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Competition - 2011 
