Oliver Schnyder

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Oliver Schnyder (born 3 October 1973) is a Swiss classical pianist.

Early life and education

Oliver Schnyder was born on 3 October 1973 in Brugg, Switzerland. He studied with Emmy Henz-Diémand (taking his teaching and concert diploma of the Swiss Music Pedagogic Association SMPA in 1994), then studied in the master class of Homero Francesch at the Zurich University of the Arts, taking his soloist diploma in 1998. He thereafter studied briefly 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 (taking his Graduate Performance Diploma in 2001).

Career

Since his debut recital in the year 2000 at the

DR Koncerthuset, 2015), London (Cadogan Hall, 2015, 2017), Baltimore (Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 2015) and Zürich (Tonhalle
and Tonhalle Maag, 1998–2019).

Schnyder has also performed at numerous international festivals, such as at the Ruhr Piano Festival (2000), the

Lugano Festival (2010, 2015), the Lucerne Festival (2010, 2011, 2014), the Frankfurt Musikfest (2017), the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems (2018), the Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2013) and the Bruckner Festival Linz (Brucknerhaus
, 2020).

Oliver Schnyder has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras, such as the

Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields (a tour with Julia Fischer in 2015), the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2015 under the baton of Mario Venzago), the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (2010, with Semyon Bychkov), the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2015, with Mario Venzago), the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (in the 2014/15 season, Schnyder was the orchestra's first-ever "Artiste étoile", and in this capacity joined them on a tour to England in May 2015; 2018), the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra (2002, 2013), the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (2006, 2014, 2017, 2020), the Basel Symphony Orchestra (2002, 2018, UK Tour 2017), the Korean Symphony Orchestra (2018), the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (2017), the Wurttemberg Philhamonia Reutlingen (2020), the South-west German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim (2020), the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (2008, 2011), the Hong Kong Sinfonietta (2004), the Oslo Camerata (2004, 2005), the Israel Sinfonietta (2008) and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
(2018).

Further renowned conductors with whom Schnyder has performed include

Sir Roger Norrington (Tour with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in 2016), Michail Jurowski (Korean Symphony Orchestra 2018), Howard Arman, James Gaffigan (Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, complete cycle of the Beethoven Piano Concertos 2017) and Ivor Bolton
(Basel Symphony Orchestra 2017, 2018).

Oliver Schnyder is the pianist of the Oliver Schnyder Trio, which he founded in 2012 together with violinist Andreas Janke and cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger. The Trio gave its debut in the Zürich Tonhalle on 4 February 2012 with Schubert's

Endellion String Quartet
, the Carmina Quartet, the Gringolts Quartet and many more.

Oliver Schnyder's concerts have been broadcast by national public radio stations all over Europe and in the United States.

Cultural involvement

Oliver Schnyder is the founder and artistic director of Piano District[3] (together with cultural manager Thomas Pfiffner), which brings top-class pianists to the "Druckerei" (a former printing plant) in his hometown Baden. Since 2013, pianists such as Radu Lupu, Emanuel Ax, Mikhail Pletnev, Fazıl Say, Kit Armstrong, Yulianna Avdeeva, Angela Hewitt, Stephen Kovacevich, Christian Zacharias, Jan Lisiecki, Dmitry Masleev, Philippe Entremont, Paul Badura-Skoda, Janina Fialkowska and Richard Goode have performed on the stage of Piano District, as well as piano duos such as Tal & Groethuysen, and Anderson & Roe.

Schnyder has been guest artistic director of the Ittingen Whitsun Concerts 2016 (founded by András Schiff and Heinz Holliger), and 2018/2019 artistic director of the Davos Festival – Young Artists in Concert. In 2018, Oliver Schnyder and his wife Fränzi Frick have been appointed artistic directors of the festival Lenzburgiade Classic & Folk International.

Scholarships, prizes and awards

Recordings of Oliver Schnyder have been awarded in numerous cases i.e. by the

NDR Kultur (CD of the week for the Mendelssohn Piano Concertos, 2013, and CD of the day for Schumann Piano Works, 2010), by the Kulturspiegel (former supplement of Der Spiegel, classification of the Haydn Piano Concertos as part of the series "The best good Classical CD", 2013), of the Fono Forum (for Liszt Années de pèlerinage, 2012), of ClassicFM (CD of the week for the Haydn Piano Concertos, 2012) and of rbb
Kulturradio (CD of the week for the Beethoven Project, Complete Concertos and Overtures, 2017, and the Haydn Piano Concertos, 2012).

Discography

References

  1. ^ Recital with violinist Julia Fischer at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, January 14, 2005, New York Times, January 15, 2005
  2. ^ Recital with Veronika Eberle at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, February 13, 2009, New York Times, February 16, 2009
  3. ^ Website of Piano District
  4. Pizzicato
     (in German). Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Musicians of the Orpheum Advancement Programme". Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists. Retrieved May 15, 2011.

External links

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