The pair recorded a CD together entitled Haiku, along with drummer Jerry Granelli, bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall and vocalist Sayumi Yoshida, for which Schmidt composed all the music.
[3] In 1995 Andreas Schmidt received a composition grant from the Berlin Senate and spent six months in New York City working with Jim Black, Jane Ira Bloom, D. D. Jackson, Susie Ibarra and Joe Fiedler.
There he also met pianist Paul Bley, who motivated him to work with bassist Gary Peacock.
Since 1997 Schmidt has been the house pianist of the Berlin jazz club A-Trane, playing with many notable musicians.
In 2009, Schmidt released two albums: Schmidt Happens!, a live recording with Berlin musicians [ndreas Henze (bass), Kai Bussenius (drums) and saxophonist Peter Weniger, and a trio recording with drummer Samuel Rohrer and trumpeter Thomas Heberer entitled Pieces for a Husky Puzzle.