Oliver Schnyder


Oliver Schnyder is a Swiss classical pianist.

Education

Oliver Schnyder studied with Emmy Henz-Diémand, then studied in the master class of Homero Francesch at the Zurich University of the Arts, taking his solo diploma in 1998. He thereafter studied briefly with Ruth Laredo at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and from 1998 to 2001 in the class of Leon Fleisher in Baltimore.

Career

Since his debut recital in the year 2000 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and his solo debut in 2002 with Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by David Zinman on the occasion of the Orpheum Music Festival for the Orpheum Festival Days for the Advancement of Young Soloists in Zurich, Oliver Schnyder has embarked on a global concert career. As a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician he has performed across all of Europe, in North and South America and the Far East, playing in Munich, Osaka, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, New York, Frankfurt am Main, Milan, Lucerne, Moscow, Beijing, Hamburg, Brussels, Manchester, St. Petersburg, Dortmund, Geneva, Taipei, Cologne, Seoul, Rockville, Maryland, Copenhagen, London and Baltimore.
Schnyder has also performed at numerous international festivals, such as at the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Boswil Music Summer, the Ernen Music Village, the Lugano Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Oliver Schnyder has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras, such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Further renowned conductors with whom Schnyder has performed include Semyon Bychkov, Howard Griffiths and Muhai Tang.
Oliver Schnyder is the pianist of the Schnyder Trio, which he founded in 2012 together with violinist Andreas Janke and the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger. The Trio gave its debut in the Zurich Tonhalle on 4 February 2012 with Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major.

Cultural involvement

Oliver Schnyder is the founder and artistic director of Piano District, whose aim is to bring top-class concerts into the spaces of selected industrial monuments of the canton of Aargau, and of Piano Legends, which organises concerts with legendary pianists. He is also the Intendant of the Ittingen Whitsun Concerts 2016.

Scholarships, prizes and awards

Recordings of Oliver Schnyder have been awarded in numerous cases i.e. by the Opernwelt, by the Rondo Magazine, by the Aargauer Zeitung, by NDR Kultur, by the Kulturspiegel, of the Fono Forum, of ClassicFM and of rbb Kulturradio.

Discography