DANIEL SCHNYDER

Daniel Schnyder is known as a composer and performer with a dynamic reputation in both jazz and classical fields. He recorded over ten CDs of his own music for Enja Records, Col Legno, Koch Jazz, CCnc, Universal, BIS, TCB, Arabesque and Red Records. As a performer Daniel toured and recorded with many well known classical musicians, world music artists and jazz players.

Daniel was born 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland and lives in New York City. His orchestral works and his chamber music compositions have been performed and recorded all over the world. Among his credits as a composer are commissions for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra New York, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Chicago Sinfonietta, Vienna Art Orchestra, Tonhalle Zürich, NDR Orchestra Hannover, the NDR Big Band, the New York based new music group "Absolute Ensemble" and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

The Album "Absolution" (Enja Nova) featuring Daniel Schnyder's Trombone Concerto received a Grammy nomination for "Best Classical Small Ensemble Recording" in 2002.

Daniel toured Europe and Australia with his trio, featuring David Taylor and Kenny Drew Jr., playing music by Gershwin, Bach, Vivaldi, Wagner and Ellington in addition to his own new compositions bridging the worlds of classical music and jazz.

He frequently performs with his special chamber music project for saxophone and string quartet, combining composition and improvisation, jazz and traditional chamber music.

The vast catalogue of his chamber music works has been performed by many famous artists like Emmanuel Pahud, Eroica Trio, Schweizer Klaviertrio, Radek Baborak, Reinhold Friedrich, Carmina Quartett, David Jolley, David Taylor and the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble.

As an arranger/composer he produced albums for jazz artists as Abdullah Ibrahim, Lee Konitz and Paquito D'Rivera. He also worked with Simon Shaheen, Peter Herbert, Burhan Oecal, Bassam Saba, Jing Jang, Marcel Kalife and Jamey Haddad.

In 2005 Schnyder’s Opera CASANOVA was premiered at the Yehudi Menuhin Festival with Wolfgang Holzmair in the lead role.

Daniel gives master classes in composition, chamber music, improvisation and saxophone amd works also as a consultant and producer for creative solutions and ideas in classical music and jazz, working closely with major festivals, promoters and ensembles.