Saskia Schneider
Saskia Schneider (born before 1986) is a German concert flutist .
Life
Saskia Schneider began her studies at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe before she passed her concert exam in the master class of Maxence Larrieu at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève ( Geneva Conservatory ) . The Irish flautist James Galway and the French flautist Alain Marion had a great influence on their playing . Her international career began in 1986 when she was invited to concerts in Indonesia with the pianist Surjani Bahari at the instigation of the Goethe-Institut.
She published radio recordings for the WDR, the SWF and the SDR in Mainz, Stuttgart and Cologne as well as for the Polish radio in Warsaw and Opole. For a long time she worked as a studio musician in Munich alongside her solo appearances. She has given concerts with a wide variety of orchestras and has performed with the Phantasmagoria Jazz Quartet for many years, with whom she released the CD "Crying with Laughter", which was published in England. Her broad repertoire has taken her as a soloist to the USA, Poland, Finland, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, with the Brazilian pianist Vania Pimentel and the Polish pianist Marek Mizera, among others. She has released several CDs with pianist Wojtek Gogolewski, as well as with harpist Anna Faber, supported by the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation. In 2004 she opened the German Year of Culture in Kaliningrad / Königsberg, Russia, with a program on German Romanticism. She currently lives in Frankfurt am Main, where she founded the chamber music association “Die Blaue Blume eV” in 2002 with the support of the City of Frankfurt, the State of Hesse and Sparda-Bank Hessen eG.
Discography
- Phantasmagoria Quartet - Crying with laughter
- Saskia Schneider & Wojtek Gogolewski - Romantic Rendezvous
- Saskia Schneider & Wojtek Gogolewski - Personal Impressions
- Saskia Schneider - Anna Faber
Web links
- Works by and about Saskia Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- The blue flower
- The concert flutist Saskia Schneider
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| SURNAME | Schneider, Saskia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert flutist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1986 |