Composer
Biography:
| TOBIAS PETER MARIA SCHNEID, born in Rehau in Franconia in 1963 and grew up in Munich and Königsbrunn near Augsburg, was already honored with numerous prizes and awards for his compositional work while he was studying composition in Würzburg (with Bertold Hummel and especially with Heinz Winbeck). In addition to the renowned composition prize of the state capital Stuttgart (1987), he received, among many other awards, the WDR »Forum of Young Composers« prize in 1989, the composition prize and audience prize at the Hitzacker Summer Music Festival (1990 and 1992), and the first prize at the 1st Vienna International, initiated by Claudio Abbado composition competition (1991), a six-month grant from the cite international des arts (1993) and the Bavarian State Prize for Young Artists in 1995 Jazz inspires - developed into a completely independent, individual musical language. His oeuvre includes works of almost all musical genres: from large-orchestral symphony (e.g. a symphony of changes, RUN, NIGHT), solo concertos for clarinet (Beautiful harmonizer) and violoncello to an extensive catalog of works for ensemble and chamber music. The work to date has been documented on three portrait CDs and in collaboration with internationally renowned artists and orchestras. So have i.a. the Radio Symphony Orchestras of the BR, the SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the WDR and SR, the BBC Symphony Orchestra London, the DSO Berlin, the BJO and the Munich Chamber Orchestra under conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Andris Nelsons, Johannes Kalitzke, Dennis Russel Davies, Brad Lubman and Christoph Poppen performed or recorded his works. The SWR vocal ensemble, conducted by Marcus Creed, has its 3rd Symphony »XXI« premiered for 28 vocalists. In the field of ensemble and chamber music, Tobias PMSchneid has composed for the ensembles TrioLog Munich, Musikfabrik NRW, »die reihe« Vienna, Psappha Manchester, the Minguet Quartet and the Tecchler Trio. Solo works were created e.g. for Jörg Widmann, Carin Levine, Stefan Schilli, Benjamin Engeli, Esther Hoppe and Maximilian Hornung. The Freiburg International Clarinet Competition and the ARD Munich International Music Competition commissioned Tobias PM Schneid to perform the respective compulsory pieces for the finalists. For the latter, Schneid will again compose a work in 2014. His works were nominated and performed in 1989, 1991 and 2006 as official German contributions to the respective World Music Days. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, concert and lecture tours have taken him to Hungary, England, Denmark and Japan. |
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