Oliver Schnyder
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| Background information | |
| Born |
October 3, 1973 Brugg, Switzerland |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels |
Sony Classical RCA Red Seal (Sony Music/Sony Masterworks) Avie |
| Website | www |
Oliver Schnyder (born October 3, 1973 in Brugg, Switzerland) is a Swiss classical pianist.
Oliver Schnyder 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 solo 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).
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 (today: Orpheum – Young Soloists on Stage), 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 (in the Philharmonie in 2001 and 2003, the Herkulessaal in 2009 and the Prinzregententheater 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, 2005, 2009), Frankfurt am Main (Alte Oper, 2005), Milan (Sala Verdi, 2005), Lucerne (Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, 2005–2014), 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), St. Petersburg (Philharmonia, 2009), Dortmund (Konzerthaus, 2010, 2011), Geneva (Victoria Hall, 2010, 2012, 2015), Taipei (National Concert Hall, 2011, 2015), Cologne (Philharmonie, 2012, 2014), Seoul (Seoul Arts Center, 2014), Rockville, Maryland (Music Center at Strathmore, 2015), Copenhagen (DR Koncerthuset, 2015), London (Cadogan Hall, 2015) and Baltimore (Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 2015).
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