Oliver Schnyder

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

Life

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

Work

Oliver Schnyder unfolds in Washington DC since his debut recital at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and his solo debut with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman at the Orpheum Music Festival for the Advancement of Young Soloists Zurich a worldwide concert career. As a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, he performs throughout Europe, in North and South America and the Far East and is, inter alia, on stages in London ( Wigmore Hall ), New York ( Carnegie Hall ), Washington DC ( Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts ), Osaka ( Izumi Hall ), Taipei ( National Concert Hall ), as well as at international festivals (among the Lucerne Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad) as a guest. As a soloist, Oliver Schnyder still occurs, inter alia, with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich or the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.

Oliver Schnyder after his CD debut with Sony RCA Red Seal ( the Mozart double album " Contrasts " with piano concertos with the Camerata Bern and complete piano works in minor keys ) on the same label in June 2010, a recording of piano works by Schumann and in November 2011 a refilled double CD with works by Franz Liszt. With labels such as Avie Records, Classico, Musiques Suisses, Phoenix or Telos Records more CDs have been realized.

Since 2012 Oliver Schnyder pianist Oliver Schnyder of the trio, which he founded with violinist Andreas Janke and 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.

Scholarships, prizes and awards (selection)

  • Pizzicato Supersonic Award ( Pizzicato ), Luxembourg, 2010 and 2011
  • Tz- Rose of the week, Munich, 2009
  • Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists, Zurich, 2002
  • Milholland Award for Piano of the Peabody Conservatory, 2001
  • First prize in the Pembaur Competition, Bern, 1999
  • Soloists Competition of the Swiss Music Council, Künstlerhaus Boswil, 1991
  • Swiss Youth Music Competition, Lucerne, 1986
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