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| Background information | |
| Born | (1973-10-03)3 October 1973 (age 51) Brugg, Switzerland |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Sony Classical RCA Red Seal (Sony Music/Sony Masterworks) Avie |
| Website | www |
Oliver Schnyder (born 3 October 1973) is a Swissclassicalpianist.
Oliver Schnyder was born on 3 October 1973 inBrugg, Switzerland. He studied with Emmy Henz-Diémand (taking his teaching and concert diploma of theSwiss Music Pedagogic Association SMPA in 1994), then studied in themaster class ofHomero Francesch at theZurich University of the Arts, taking his soloist diploma in 1998. He thereafter studied briefly withRuth Laredo at theManhattan School of Music in New York (1998) and from 1998 to 2001 in the class ofLeon Fleisher inBaltimore (taking his Graduate Performance Diploma in 2001).
Since his debut recital in the year 2000 at theJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts inWashington, D.C. and his solo debut in 2002 withTonhalle-Orchester Zürich conducted byDavid Zinman on the occasion of the Orpheum Music Festival for the Advancement of Young Soloists inZürich (today: Orpheum – Young Soloists on Stage), Oliver Schnyder has embarked on a global concert career. As a soloist, recitalist andchamber musician he has performed across all of Europe, in North and South America and the Far East, playing inMunich (in thePhilharmonie in 2001 and 2003, theHerkulessaal in 2009 and thePrinzregententheater in 2011 and 2013),Osaka (Izumi Hall, 2003),Tokyo (Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, 2003),Hong Kong (Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 2004),London (Wigmore Hall, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2015),New York (Carnegie Hall,[1][2] 2005, 2009),Frankfurt am Main (Alte Oper, 2005, 2017, 2019),Milan (Sala Verdi, 2005),Lucerne (Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, 2005–2019),Moscow (Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 2005, Tchaikovsky Hall, 2011),Beijing (Forbidden City Concert Hall, 2006),Hamburg (Laeiszhalle, 2007),Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, 2008),Manchester (Bridgewater Hall, 2009),Saint Petersburg (Philharmonia, 2009),Dortmund (Konzerthaus, 2010, 2011),Geneva (Victoria Hall, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019),Taipei (National Concert Hall, 2011, 2015, 2017),Cologne (Kölner Philharmonie, 2012, 2014),Seoul (Seoul Arts Center, 2014, 2018),Rockville, Maryland (Music Center at Strathmore, 2015),Copenhagen (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), theSchwetzingen Festival (2007, 2013), theMenuhin Festival Gstaad (2008, 2010, 2017), theMecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (2008), theBoswil Music Summer (Festival Artist 2008), theErnen Music Village (2009, 2014, 2019), theLugano Festival (2010, 2015), theLucerne Festival (2010, 2011, 2014), the Frankfurt Musikfest (2017), the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems (2018), theRichard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2013) and the Bruckner FestivalLinz (Brucknerhaus, 2020).
Oliver Schnyder has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras, such as thePhilharmonia Orchestra (on a tour conducted byPhilippe Jordan, 2012), theAcademy of Saint Martin in the Fields (a tour withJulia Fischer in 2015), theBaltimore Symphony Orchestra (2015 under the baton ofMario Venzago), theWDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (2010, withSemyon Bychkov), theDanish National Symphony Orchestra (2015, with Mario Venzago), theZurich Chamber Orchestra and theBern 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), theLucerne Symphony Orchestra (2006, 2014, 2017, 2020), theBasel Symphony Orchestra (2002, 2018, UK Tour 2017), the Korean Symphony Orchestra (2018), the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (2017), the Wurttemberg Philhamonia Reutlingen (2020), theSouth-west German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim (2020), theBelgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (2008, 2011), theHong Kong Sinfonietta (2004), theOslo Camerata (2004, 2005), the Israel Sinfonietta (2008) and theVienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (2018).
Further renowned conductors with whom Schnyder has performed includeHoward Griffiths,Muhai Tang,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 theBeethoven Piano Concertos 2017) andIvor Bolton (Basel Symphony Orchestra 2017, 2018).
Oliver Schnyder is the pianist of theOliver 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'sPiano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major. Other chamber music partners includeJulia Fischer,Nils Mönkemeyer,Sol Gabetta,Heinz Holliger,Antje Weithaas,Daniel Behle,Benjamin Appl,Regula Mühlemann, Lia Pale,Rachel Harnisch,Veronika Eberle, Marc Bouchkov,Vilde Frang,Alexander Sitkovetsky,Lars Anders Tomter, Jens Peter Maintz, Wolfram Christ, Christian Poltéra,Alina Pogostkina,Henning Kraggerud,Martin Grubinger, theEndellion 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.
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 asRadu 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 andRichard Goode have performed on the stage of Piano District, as well as piano duos such asTal & Groethuysen, andAnderson & Roe.
Schnyder has been guest artistic director of theIttingen Whitsun Concerts 2016 (founded byAndrás Schiff andHeinz 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.
Recordings of Oliver Schnyder have been awarded in numerous cases i.e. by theOpernwelt (Winterreisen, 2015), by theRondo Magazine (Recommendation of the week for theBrahms Piano Trios, 2014), by theAargauer Zeitung (Best Swiss Classical Album of the year 2014 for the Brahms Trios and Best Swiss Classical Album of the year 2013 for theSchubert Trios), byNDR Kultur (CD of the week for theMendelssohn Piano Concertos, 2013, and CD of the day forSchumann Piano Works, 2010), by theKulturspiegel (former supplement ofDer Spiegel, classification of theHaydn Piano Concertos as part of the series "The best good Classical CD", 2013), of theFono Forum (forLisztAnnées de pèlerinage, 2012), ofClassicFM (CD of the week for the Haydn Piano Concertos, 2012) and ofrbb Kulturradio (CD of the week for the Beethoven Project, Complete Concertos and Overtures, 2017, and the Haydn Piano Concertos, 2012).
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