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• am Rande bin, konzentrisch (Am at the Border, Concentric) — music for percussion, string quintet and orchestra (1990)
• Von der schwarzen Erde dieser Welt (From this World’s Black Earth) Concert cycle of 17 pieces for 2 recorders, chitarrone, viola da gamba, and harpsichord and 16 poems about exile
• im großen Dazwischen, nachtüber (In the Great Between, Overnight) music in ten variations for mixed chorus, percussion, violin, cello, and piano
• Haut (Skin) — music for eleven wooden window-sills in the atrium of the Professorenhaus in Lingen
• Morgenlachen (Morning Laughter) — music for cello
• Sieben kleine Sätze (Seven Little Movements) for violin, cello and piano
• Schattenspiegel (Shadow Mirror) — music for voice and string orchestra
• Umrisse eines Wir (Outline of a We) — seven pieces for chorus and orchestra with words of Cyrus Atabay and George W. Bush

Since ca. 1969 musical autodidact. 1987–90 studies music sience, history and art in Oldenburg with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt and Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann. 1988-91 studies composition (and piano) at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen with Jens-Peter Ostendorf and Luciano Ortis. 1990 co-founder and until 1995 chairman of „oh ton — Förderung aktueller Musik in der Provinz eV“, organises lots of concerts with new music and co-founder and artist director of the oh ton ensemble, chamber orchestra for new music.

Since 1992 Schmidt-Mechau is a free-lance composer.

• http://schmidt-mechau.de