Joachim F.W. Schneider has received many national and international awards, including 1st Prize in the II. International Uuno Klami Composition Competition 2009, the 2005 Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis, given by the German Federal State of Bavaria, and the 2003 European Composer’s Award. His works have been performed by prestigious soloists, ensembles and orchestras (such as Berkeley Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano and Ensemble Modern) and have been played in Europe, USA and Canada.

Schneider’s compositions include works for string quartet, orchestra and choir as well as piano, guitar and solo tuba. His music is complex and multilayered, he uses all possible ways of expression and techniques of the instruments involved. This variety is brought together into an own and original aestheticism which is dense in colour and time.

Schneider has taught at the University of Music Würzburg since 1998. He gives lessons in music theory to advanced placement students, and he works in the new Würzburger Institut für Neue Musik und Gegenwartsmusik (WING) at the academy.