Jazz trumpeter, band leader, music producer and publisher, lecturer at the Jazz Institutes of the University of Applied Sciences in Nysa and the Katowice Academy of Music, where in 2016 he gained a doctoral degree in Music. In 2006 he won a scholarship to University of Louisville, Kentucky and early in his career (2006-2010) he won many individual awards and Grand Prix's now being one of the most important jazz figures in Poland and middle Europe. To date, Piotr has produced and published 16 own highly acclaimed albums. Since 2011 Piotr has ranked among the best three jazz trumpeters in the annual Jazz Top poll of the Jazz Forum European magazine achieving 1st place in the 2023 survey! One of his latest projects: Piotr Schmidt Quartet – Tribute to Tomasz Stańko is considered by Wolf Mueller (Sony Music Germany) as one of the best 10 albums from 2018 in the World.) Two of his albums (Dark Forecast & Komeda Unknown 1967 were distributed and promoted by O-Tone Music (from Giessen, Germany), gaining many remarkable reviews. Among Piotr's many collaborators are: Leszek Możdżer, Mino Cinelu, Ed Partyka, Aaron Parks, Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Alex Hutchings, Harish Raghavan, Ernesto Simpson, Jonathan Barber...