Daniel Schnyder (musician)

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Daniel Schnyder (* 1961 in Zurich ) is a Swiss jazz saxophonist (tenor, soprano), flutist and composer of jazz and classical music.

Live and act

Schnyder studied saxophone and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston and flute at the Winterthur Conservatory with Heinrich Keller. Schnyder is active in jazz as well as in classical music and consciously crosses the boundaries of the otherwise strictly separated music worlds, including popular music and world music . In his own words, he also uses jazz ensembles as a test laboratory to improve his compositions (also through ideas or concepts from other musicians introduced through improvisation). Accordingly, he leads both jazz combos and chamber music ensembles. He wrote numerous commissioned compositions for international orchestras and classical ensembles, e. B. two operas ("The Tempest" after Shakespeare 1996 for the opera in Bern, "Casanova" 2005), a piano concerto, a violin concerto, four string quartets, a trumpet sonata and four symphonies. In 2014 he performed with great success with “Alkeste” based on Handel's “Alceste” a work commissioned by the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) and the MDR with the MDR symphony orchestra and the MDR radio choir. He arranges and composes concert programs for orchestras. B. are based on the music of the Rolling Stones or Duke Ellington .

He toured with his own trio "Worlds Beyond" (with pianist Kenny Drew junior and bass trombonist Dave Taylor ), with whom he played jazz as well as classical music and his own compositions. With Drew he also had a quartet "Da Skale". He arranged and composed a. a. for Abdullah Ibrahim (“African Suite”, Enja, he also recorded Schnyder's “African Symphony”), Lee Konitz (“Strings for Holiday”, Enja), Paquito D'Rivera (“La Habanera”, Enja) and Eliana Burki ( "Alpine Horn Symphonic"). His work «Tarantula» (Enja, 1992–1996, with the NDR Philharmonie under George Gruntz and with jazz musicians such as Thomas Chapin , Adam Taubitz and Hubert Laws ) emerged from a Freischütz project . Further CDs under his own name are “Secret Cosmos” with his “Modern Art Septet” 1987, “Winds” 1990 (Schwann / Koch), “Mythen” (Schwann / Koch) 1991, “Mythologie” (Enja) 1991, “Songbook” 2002 (with his “Songbook for Saxophone and Orchestra”), “Colossus of Sound” 2004 (NDR Radiophilharmonie under Kristjan Järvi, Enja). In 2011 a portrait album was released which contains the Concerto for Chamber Orchestra and numerous recent chamber music works. His most recent record is a collection of Blues, Ballads and Beyond (2015).

Schnyder has lived in New York City for many years . He gives courses at the Stuttgart Crossover Academy, which he leads with Ingo Goritzki.

Prices

Fonts

  • "Vertical relationship in music"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "This type of laboratory activity" can, however, he admits, also be seen as "a piece of exploitation and espionage". A wanderer between the worlds , Neue Musikzeitung 9/1998
  2. ↑ Prize winners. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation, accessed on July 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnyder, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich