Tobias PM Schneid

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Tobias Peter Maria Schneid (born July 2, 1963 in Rehau ) is a German composer . His work ranges from contemporary European music to jazz and rock . In addition to traditional, he also uses serial, electronic and free tonal composition techniques. Schneid often bases his works on non-musical concepts.

Tobias PM Schneid

Life

Schneid studied composition from 1985 to 1992 with Bertold Hummel and Heinz Winbeck at the University of Music in Würzburg ; In 1994 he completed his studies there with a master class diploma. Today, Schneid lives with his family in Neuburg an der Donau and mainly devotes himself to composing.

In 1996 he was Composer in Residence at the University of Manchester , where he met with great interest with the performance of various of his own works. Since 1997 he has been a lecturer for composition at the University of Music in Würzburg , and also a freelance composer.

Tobias PM Schneid has received several awards for his musical work. At the 1st Vienna Composition Competition initiated by Claudio Abbado in 1990 he was awarded 1st prize. In 1996 he was composer in residence at the University of Manchester. His works, attempt over the past , unison op. 1 and the ensemble pieces Prelude I: Harmonic Encounters and Weird Scenes Inside the Mirror Cages were selected by the national jury as German contributions to the World Music Days in 1989, 1991 and 2006. In 2009 the chamber music CD Sacred Landscapes was released on the Coviello Classics label. In spring 2010, Schneid completed his 2nd symphony Time Lapse on Slow Motion Grounds , which was premiered on May 18, 2010 by the Young Euro Classics Festival Orchestra at the Expo in Shanghai under the direction of Gerd Albrecht .

Prizes and awards

  • 1987 Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart
  • 1989 WDR Forum for Young Composers Composition Prize
  • 1990 Composition and Audience Award at the Hitzacker Summer Music Days
  • 1991 l. Prize of the 1st Vienna International Composition Competition (Claudio Abbado)
  • 1993 Half-year scholarship from the Cite international des arts in Paris
  • 1994 Composition and Audience Award at the Hitzacker Summer Music Days
  • 1995 one-month work grant at the IRCAM in Paris
  • 1995 Angelo Commneno Composition Prize Rome
  • 1995 finalist at the 4th annual International Spectri Sonori Contes! in New Orleans
  • 1995 Bavarian State Prize for Young Artists
  • 1995 Special Mention at the 3rd International Witold Lutoslawski Composition Prize
  • 1997 Special Mention at the 8th Concours International de Composition Musicale Besançon
  • 2009 nomination for the German Music Author Award of GEMA Category: Symphony
  • 2015 nomination for the GEMA German Music Author Award Category: Orchestra
  • 2015 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Catalog of works (as of October 2015)

Chamber music

  • Aria for cello solo (2012) | Duration: 7 '
  • Cascando I for string trio, clarinet, piano and amplifier ad lib. (1992) | Duration: 16 '| Commissioned by the city of Neuburg for the 1994 Summer Academy
  • Cascando II for violoncello, clarinet, piano and amplifier ad lib. (1993/94) | Duration: 20 '| Awarded the 3rd prize and the audience prize at the Hitzacker Summer Music Days
  • Cathedral I-III, a farewell to Bertold Hummel for piano solo (2002) | Duration: 11 '
  • Entrez !, fragment for string quartet, 2nd string quartet (1991) | Duration: 7 '| Commissioned by the Friends of the Alte Oper Frankfurt
  • Five Portraits, Capriccios for violin solo (2011) | Duration: 20 '
  • Manchester metrics, version for tenor recorder (1996) | Commissioned for Johannes Fischer
  • Madrigali Astralis for Saxophone Quartet (2014) | Duration: 12 '| Commissioned by the Bavarian Radio Studio Franken | World premiere: October 25, 2014, Raschér Saxophone Quartet. Palais Stutterheim Erlangen
  • Piano Trio No. 1, ... towards the abstract seas ... (2002/08) | Duration: 18 '
  • Piano Trio No. 2, Three Farewells and Intermezzo for L (2006) | Duration: 17 '| Commissioned by the ARD International Music Competition 2007
  • Sacred Landscapes, Ritual fragment for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos (2001/08) | Duration: 14 '| Commissioned by the Rodin Quartet Munich and Siegfried Palms .
  • Six bagatelles for piano solo (2011) | Duration: 12 '
  • Sonata for Cello solo (2011/12) | Duration: 13 '| Commissioned for Maximilian Hornung
  • String Quartet No. 3 “Schumann” (2011) | Duration: 23 '| Commissioned by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
  • String trio No. 1 (2011) | Duration: 18 '| Commissioned by the Mozart Festival Augsburg
  • Suite for Cello solo (2014) | Duration: 11 '| Commissioned by the ARD International Music Competition 2014
  • Vertical Horizon I for clarinet solo (1997) | Duration: 12 '
  • Vertical Horizon II for flute solo (2003) | Duration: 12 '| Commissioned for Carin Levine
  • Vertical Horizon III for oboe solo (2008) | Duration: 12 '| Commissioned for Stefan Schilli
  • Vertical Horizon IV, Mozart-Concert variations for clarinet in A (2015) | Duration: 11 '| Commissioned by the International LIONS Europe Competition 2015
  • Vertical Horizon V for tenor saxophone solo (2015) | Duration: 7 '| Commissioned for Jan Schulte-Bunert
  • An attempt on the past (1st string quartet), for string quartet and tape playback (1989/93) | Duration: 22 '| German contribution to the World Music Days 1990 in Oslo. Awarded the A. Commneno Composition Prize in Rome
  • What Wonderful World, Mr. Armstrong ?, encore for piano solo (2002) | Duration: 1 '
  • 3 Bagatelles for piano solo (1991) | Duration: 6 '

Ensemble music

  • Cathedral I-III for ensemble (2004/08) | Instrumentation: Fl, Ob, Kl, Vl, Va, Vc, Perc, Pno / Hrf | Duration: 13 '
  • Changes, songs and inbetweens (2003) | Duration: 13 '| Instrumentation: Vl, Vc, Pno
  • I'm dancing on the edge of time (2001) | Duration: 8 '| Instrumentation: Fl, Kl, Vl, Va, Vc, Pno | Commissioned by Jeunesse Musicale
  • I'm dancing on the edge of time II (2002) | Duration: 8 '| Instrumentation: Fl, Ob, Kl, Vib / Octoban, Pno, Vl, Vc
  • Le Cinema / Le Train (2003) | Duration: 13 '| Vl, Vc, Pno | Commissioned by the A * Devantgarde Festival Munich
  • Prelude I "harmonic encounters" (2000) | Duration: 6'30 | Instrumentation: Fl, BKl, Perc (Gran Cassa), Pno, Vl, Va, Vc | Commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • The Lonely Monk's Reflections on Reprocreational Aspects in Fractal Organizations I (1999) | Duration: 15 '| Instrumentation: pno solo; 1-1-1-1, 1-1-1-0, Kb / Ebass | Commissioned by Ensemble Köln
  • The Lonely Monk's Reflections on Reprocreational Aspects in Fractal Organizations II (1999) | Duration: 15 '| Instrumentation: pno solo; 1-1-1-0, 0-1-0-0, Perc, Vl, Va, Vc, Kb | Commissioned by the Ensemble piano possible Munich
  • Umbrellas & Sewing Machines (2000) | Duration: 15 '| Instrumentation: Fl, Ob, Kl, Pno, Perc, Vl, Vc | Commissioned by the Ensemble TrioLog
  • Weird Scenes Inside the Mirror Cages I (2000) | Duration: 9 '| Instrumentation: Fl, BKl, Perc, Pno, Vl, Va, Vc | Commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk

orchestra

  • ... a wild celebration of color and rhythm ... (1996/97) | Duration: 27 '| Scoring: 3-3-3-2, 4-4-3-1, Perc (4), Pno, Str
  • Adagio for Orchestra (2001/04) | Duration: 10 '| Scoring: 2-2-2-2, 2-2-1-0, Perc, Hrf, Str
  • A Portrait of Marshall LEo Gambetti with Trumpet (1992/93) | Duration: 18 '| Scoring: 2-2-2-2, 2-2-1-0, Perc, Hrf, Str | Commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • A Symphony of Changes (2000/2001) | Duration: 23 '| Scoring: 2-2-2-2, 2-2-1-0, Perc, Pno, Str | Commissioned by the city of Neuburg at the turn of the millennium
  • An Iconoclastic Reproduction of 19 Rainbow Players (1998) | Duration: 20 '| Scoring: 11 Vl, 4 Va, 3 Vc, Kb | Commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra
  • Astral Voyager (2013) | Duration: 19 '| Instrumentation: sax solo; 2-2-3-2, 4-2-2-1, Perc (2), Hrf, Str (min. 12-10-8-6-4) | Commissioned by the New Westphalia Philharmonic
  • Beautiful Harmonizer - Rhapsodic Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra (2009/10) | Duration: 12 '| Instrumentation: Kl solo; 3-3-3-3, 4-3-3-0, Perc (2), Hrf, Pno, Str | Commissioned by the 1st International Clarinet Competition in Freiburg
  • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2006) | Duration: 24 '| Instrumentation: Vc solo; 2-2-3-2, 4-2-3-1, Timp, Perc (3), Hrf, Str | Commissioned by the Young Euro Classic Festival
  • Unison op.1 (1989) | Duration: 23 '| Instrumentation: 3-3-3-Tsax-2, 4-4-3-1, Timp, Perc (4), Pno, Str
  • Nacht - Prelude (before Mahler) for large orchestra (2011) | Duration: 12 '| Scoring: 5-4-5-4, 4-3-3-1, THr (ad lib), Perc (3), 2 Hrf, Str (min. 14-12-12-8-6) | Commissioned by the Philharmonic Orchestra Augsburg
  • Run (2004) | Duration: 7 '| Scoring: 2-2-2-2, 2-2-2-1, Timp, Perc (3), Pno, Hrf, Str | Commissioned by the Young Euro Classics Festival Berlin
  • Seascapes (1996/97) | Duration: 18 '| Instrumentation: 3-3-3-Sax-2, 2-2-2-1, Perc (4), Pno, Str
  • Symphony No. 2 - Timelaps on Slow Motion Grounds (2010) | Duration: 6 '| Instrumentation: 3-2-2-2, 2-2-3-0, Perc (2), Timp, Str | Commissioned by the Young Euro Classics Festival Berlin
  • Symphony No. 2 - Timelaps on Slow Motion Grounds (for Chamber Orchestra) (2014) | Duration: 6 '| Instrumentation: 1-1-2-1, 1-1-1-0, Perc, Pno, Str | Commissioned by the Taschenphilharmonie Munich
  • A City's Symphony - orchestral music for the silent film "Berlin. The Symphony of the Big City", 1927 by Walter Ruttmann (2016) | Duration: 68 '| Instrumentation: 2-1-2-1, 2-1-1-0, Perc (1), Pno, Str (min. 6-5-4-3-2) | Commissioned by the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung München. World premiere on May 5 and 6, 2016 at the Deutsches Theater in Munich to mark the opening of the 31st DOK.fest, the Munich International Documentary Film Festival. Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer.

Musical theater

  • Swin Swin - music theater in 10 scenes | Duration: 110 '| Instrumentation: 3 S, Mez, 2 A, 2 CounterT / 2 Mez soli; 3 Spr, extra; 1-0-2-1, 1-1-1-0, Perc (2), Pno, Str | Commissioned by the SR and the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken.

Ballets

  • The portrait of Dorian Gray - Ballet in 2 acts based on one based on the novel by Oscar Wilde (2013) | Duration: 90 '| Instrumentation: 3-3-3-3, 4-3-3-1, Perc (3), Hrf, Pno / Cel, Str (min. 12-10-8-6-4) | Commissioned by the Augsburg Theater

Choral works

  • Night songs - odes and sonnets based on Hölderlin and W. Benjamin (2012) | Duration: 16 '| Instrumentation: SATB; Perc (2), Pno | Commissioned by the German Circle of Friends of European Youth Orchestras
  • XXI - Symphony No. 3 for 28 Vocalists (2010) | Duration: 16 '| Instrumentation: SATB | Commissioned by the SWR for the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart

Instrumentations / arrangements

  • Erdinger Weissbier (commercial) (2004) | Duration: 30 seconds
  • Who's Afraid of Mister Werewolf (2006) | Duration: 38 '| Instrumentation: Spr; 1-1-1-0, 0-1-1-0, Perc (2), pno

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Schneid, Tobias PM
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneid, Tobias Peter Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehau