COMPOSER - Joachim FW Schneider

Joachim F.W. Schneider studied with Heinz Winbeck at the University of Music Würzburg, He has received many national and international awards, including 1st Prize in the II. International Uuno Klami Composition Competition, the Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis, given by the German Federal State of Bavaria, and the European Composer’s Award. He was a scholarship holder at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

His works have been performed by prestigious soloists, ensembles and orchestras (such as Sol Gabetta, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, Kymi Sinfonietta, Münchener Kammerorchester and Ensemble Modern) and have been played in Europe, USA and Canada. He worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano, John Storgårds, Yasuo Shinozaki, Jonathan Stockhammer and Peter Tilling.

Schneider’s compositions include works for string quartet, orchestra and choir as well as piano, guitar and solo tuba. His music is complex and mostly microtonal, 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.