Oliver Schnyder

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Oliver Schnyder (born October 3, 1973 in Brugg ) is a Swiss pianist .

Life

Oliver Schnyder studied with Emmy Henz-Diémand (teaching and concert qualification diploma SMPV 1994), then up to the soloist diploma in 1998 in Homero Francesch's master class at the Zurich University of Music and Theater . It was followed by a short study with Ruth Laredo at the Manhattan School of Music in New York (1998) and 1998 to 2001 in the master class of Leon Fleisher in Baltimore (Graduate Performance Diploma, 2001).

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Oliver Schnyder has been developing since his debut recital in 2000 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and his solo debut in 2002 with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman on the occasion of the Orpheum Music Festival for the Promotion of Young Soloists Zurich (today : Orpheum - Young Soloists on Stage) a worldwide concert activity. As a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician , he has performed throughout Europe, in North and South America and the Far East. a. on stages in Munich ( Philharmonie , 2001, 2003, Herkulessaal , 2009, Prinzregententheater , 2011, 2013), Osaka (Izumi Hall, 2003), Tokyo (Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, 2003), Hong Kong ( Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 2004), London ( Wigmore Hall , 2004, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2020), New York ( Carnegie Hall , 2005, 2009), Frankfurt ( Alte Oper , 2005, 2017, 2019), Milan (Sala Verdi, 2005), Lucerne ( Culture and Congress Center Lucerne , 2005–2019), Moscow (Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory , 2005, Tchaikovsky Hall, 2011), Beijing ( Forbidden City Concert Hall , 2006), Hamburg ( Laeiszhalle , 2007), Brussels ( Palais des Beaux-Arts , 2008), Manchester ( Bridgewater Hall , 2009), St. Petersburg (Philharmonie, 2009), Dortmund ( Konzerthaus , 2010, 2011), Geneva ( Victoria Hall , 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019), Taipei ( National Concert Hall, 2011, 2015, 2017), Cologne ( Philharmonie , 2012, 2014), Seoul ( Seoul Arts Center , 2014, 2018), Rockville, MD (Music Center at Strathmore, 2015), Copenhagen n ( DR Koncerthuset , 2015), London (Cadogan Hall, 2015), Baltimore (Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 2015) and Zurich ( Tonhalle , Tonhalle Maag, 1998–2019).

He has also been heard at numerous international festivals, such as the Ruhr Piano Festival (2000), the Schwetzingen SWR Festival (2007, 2013), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad (2008, 2010, 2017), the Mecklenburg- Vorpommern (2008), in the Boswil Music Summer (Festival Artist, 2008), in the Musikdorf Ernen (2009, 2014, 2019), at the Lugano Festival (2010, 2015), the Lucerne Festival (2010, 2011, 2014), the Frankfurt Music Festival (2017), the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems (2018) and the Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2013).

As a soloist, Oliver Schnyder has appeared with many important orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra London (tour with Philippe Jordan , 2012), the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields (tour with Julia Fischer , 2015), the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2015 with Mario Venzago ), the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2015 under Mario Venzago), the Zurich Chamber Orchestra , the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Schnyder was the first «Artiste étoile» in the history of the orchestra in the 2014/15 season, which was connected to a tour of England in May 2015; 2018), the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (2002, 2013), the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (2006, 2014, 2017, 2020), the Basel Symphony Orchestra (2002, 2018, England tour 2017), the Korean Symphony Orchestra (2018 ), the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (2017), the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen (2020), the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim (2020), the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (2008, 2011), the Hong Kong Si nfonietta (2004), the Oslo Camerata (2004, 2005), the Israel Sinfonietta (2008) and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (2018).

Other important conductors under whom he has played are Semyon Bychkov ( WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne , tour 2010), Howard Griffiths , Muhai Tang , Sir Roger Norrington (tour with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra 2016), Michail Jurowski (Korean Symphony Orchestra 2018), James Gaffigan ( Lucerne Symphony Orchestra , cycle of all Beethoven piano concerts 2017) and Ivor Bolton (Basel Symphony Orchestra, 2017, 2018).

Oliver Schnyder is the pianist of the Oliver Schnyder Trio , which he founded in 2012 with the violinist Andreas Janke and the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger. The trio made its debut on February 4, 2012 in the Tonhalle Zurich with Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major . Oliver Schnyder also collaborates in chamber music with musicians such as Julia Fischer , Nils Mönkemeyer , Sol Gabetta , Heinz Holliger , Antje Weithaas , Daniel Behle , Regula Mühlemann , Lia Pale , Rachel Harnisch , Veronika Eberle , Marc Bouchkov , Vilde Frang , Lars Anders Tomter , Jens Peter Maintz , Wolfram Christ , Christian Poltéra , Alina Pogostkina , Henning Kraggerud , Martin Grubinger , the Endellion String Quartet , the Carmina Quartet , the Gringolts Quartet and others. v. m.

Oliver Schnyder's concerts have been documented by public broadcasters across Europe and the USA.

Cultural engagement

Together with cultural manager Thomas Pfiffner, Oliver Schnyder is the founder and artistic director of Piano District , which brings top-class pianists such as Radu Lupu , Emanuel Ax , Michail Pletnjow , Fazil Say , Kit to the "Druckerei Baden" (former printing company of the Badener Tagblatt , Switzerland) Armstrong , Yulianna Avdeeva , Angela Hewitt , Stephen Kovacevich , Christian Zacharias , Jan Lisiecki , Dmitry Masleev , Philippe Entremont , Paul Badura-Skoda , Janina Fialkowska , Richard Goode as well as the duos Tal & Groethuysen and Anderson & Roe. In 2016 Schnyder was director of the Ittingen Whitsun Concerts (founded by Andras Schiff and Heinz Holliger ), in 2018/2019 as successor to Reto Bieris director of the Davos Festival - Young Artists in Concert , and since 2019 he has been artistic director of the Lenzburgiade Klassik together with his wife Fränzi Frick & Folk International . Since 2016 Oliver Schnyder has been a lecturer in the piano major at the Kalaidos Music Academy in Zurich.

Scholarships, prizes and awards

  • “Supersonic Award” from the Luxembourg magazine Pizzicato , 2015, 2011 and 2010
  • “M&T milestone” from the Swiss magazine Musik & Theater , 2014
  • Contribution to artistic creation, Aargauer Kuratorium, 2016, 2012, 2007
  • ICMA nomination, 2012 (International Classical Music Awards)
  • «Choc de Classica» by the French magazine Classica , 2012
  • “Tz rose of the week” from the Munich newspaper tz , 2009
  • Orpheum Foundation for the Promotion of Young Soloists , Zurich, 2002
  • Milholland Award for Piano from the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, 2001
  • Finalist in the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice , Zwickau, 2000
  • First prize at the Pembaur competition, Bern, 1999
  • Rahn Music Prize, Zurich, 1998
  • 2nd prize Lions International Piano Competition, as the official representative of Switzerland at the European final in Budapest , 1998
  • Swiss-American Cultural Exchange Council, Washington, DC, 1998
  • Duttweiler Hug Prize, Zurich, 1996
  • Landolt Prize, Zurich, 1996
  • Soloist Prize of the Jmanuel & Evamaria Schenk Foundation, Zofingen , 1996
  • Study award winner of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives and the Ernst Göhner Foundation , 1995
  • Soloist competition of the Swiss Music Council, Künstlerhaus Boswil , 1991
  • Swiss Youth Music Competition, Lucerne, 1986

Oliver Schnyder's recordings have received several awards, for example from Opernwelt ( Winterreisen , 2015), from Rondo-Magazin (weekly recommendation for the Brahms piano trios, 2014), from the Aargauer Zeitung (best Swiss classical album of 2014 for the Brahms trios and best Swiss classical album of 2013 for the Schubert Trios), from NDR Kultur (CD of the week for the Mendelssohn piano concerts, 2013, and CD of the day for Schumann Piano Works , 2010), from Kulturspiegel (recording of the Haydn Piano concerts in the series «The best good classical CDs», 2013), from Fono Forum (Liszt, 2012), from ClassicFM (CD of the week for the Haydn piano concerts, 2012) and from rbb Kulturradio (CD of the week for The Beethoven Project. Complete Piano Concertos and Ouvertures , 2017, and CD of the week for the Haydn Piano Concerts, 2012).

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michelle Ziegler: Sustainable Moments. The Oliver Schnyder Trio in Ernen. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 10, 2014
  2. ^ Piano District website
  3. ↑ a b Oliver Schnyder Trio. Ittingen Charterhouse , February 23, 2020 (PDF; 626 kB)
  4. ↑ About us. Previous directors. Davos Festival - Young Artists in Concert
  5. ↑ Lecturers. Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland.
  6. ↑ Supersonic Award March 2011 ( Memento from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Pizzicato (PDF; 4 kB)
  7. ↑ Werner Pfister: m & t milestone. In: Music & Theater. 11/12 2014
  8. ↑ The musicians sponsored by Orpheum ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Orpheum Foundation for the Promotion of Young Soloists
  9. ↑ Beate Stender: CD of the week. The Beethoven Project. In: rbb Kulturradio . February 5, 2018 (PDF; 71 kB)
  10. ^ Schubert's «Winterreise», once with piano, once with piano trio. In: Pizzicato. February 18, 2015
  11. ^ Noble service to Schubert. In: Pizzicato. July 6, 2013
  12. ↑ Mendelssohn with Oliver Schnyder. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 24, 2014
  13. ↑ Good the son, weak the mother. In: Pizzicato. 5th January 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schnyder, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Brugg