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Oliver Martin Schneller (born 26 March 1966 in
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) is a German composer and
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Life

Schneller grew up in Ireland, Sudan, Belgium and the Philippines. After completing a MA in musicology, political science and history at the
University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...
, he worked for the
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in
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(1990–91). In 1994 he moved to the US, first studying composition at the
New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...
in Boston. From 2000–01 he lived in Paris attending a yearlong course at
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. In 2002 he received his doctoral degree in composition at
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as a student of
Tristan Murail Tristan Murail (born 11 March 1947) is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition. Among his compositions is the large orchestral work ''Gondwana''. Early life and studies Murail was born in Le Havre, France. His fa ...
, where he also taught composition and computer music as an assistant to Murail. During his time in New York Schneller developed and managed the Computer Music Studio at the Graduate Center of
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and taught harmony and counterpoint at
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]. Master classes with
Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...
, Jonathan Harvey,
Brian Ferneyhough Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...
, George Benjamin, and
Vinko Globokar Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist. Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and often relies on improvisation. Hi ...
provided important orientations. From 2002 to 2004 he was ''compositeur en recherche'' at IRCAM working on ''Jardin des fleuves'', a work for ensemble and live-electronic. Schneller's music has been performed at international festivals such as Festival Agora Paris, Musica Strasbourg,
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,
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Berlin,
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, Ultraschall, Wien Modern, IFNM Darmstadt, Tremplins Paris, Les Musiques Marseille, musique action Nancy, Musica nova, Wintermusic Berlin, Karnatic Lab, Alternativa Moscow, the
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, in Singapore and Göteborg, Musicaaoustica Beijing, Takefu Japan, Indaba,
Aspen Music Festival and School The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) is a classical music festival held annually in Aspen, Colorado. It is noted both for its concert programming and the musical training it offers to mostly young-adult music students. Founded in 1949, the ...
,
Tanglewood Music Festival The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts. The festival consists of a series of concerts, including symphonic music, ch ...
, Frankfurt 2000, and the Millenium Stage Series at the
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in Washington DC. He was a visiting composer at the 2001 Festival of Contemporary Music at the
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Conservatory of Music, and a featured composer at Festival Résonances at
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(2002). His works have been performed by numerous ensembles including Ensemble modern,
Ensemble InterContemporain The Ensemble intercontemporain (EIC) is a French music ensemble, based in Paris, that is dedicated to contemporary music. Pierre Boulez founded the EIC in 1976 for this purpose, the first permanent organization of its type in the world. Organi ...
,
MusikFabrik The Ensemble Musikfabrik (music factory ensemble) is an ensemble for contemporary classical music located in Cologne. Their official name is Ensemble Musikfabrik Landesensemble NRW e.V. (Ensemble Musikfabrik of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
,
Ictus Ensemble ICTUS is a Belgian orchestra, founded by in 1994, specialising in contemporary classical music. It is based in Brussels where it is involved in frequent collaborations with the contemporary dance choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The o ...
,
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,
Speculum Musicae Speculum Musicae is an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in New York City in 1971 and is particularly noted for its performances of the music of Elliott Carter and Charles Wuo ...
, Court Circuit, Ensemble Mosaik,
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Orchestra, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Courage, Antares, the
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Symphony Orchestra, and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. As a saxophonist, he has performed with the George Russell Big Band, the
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under
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, with the
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Orchestra as a soloist in
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's "Red Forecast", as well as with musicians such as Steve Drury, Heather O'Donnell,
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(Big Band),
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, Ned McGowan, Robin Hayward,
Vinko Globokar Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist. Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and often relies on improvisation. Hi ...
, and Gert Matthias Wegner. In 2004 he was the artistic director of the Tracing Migrations Festival in Berlin which led to the foundation of the Tracing Migrations Project, an ongoing documentation and permanently updated data base of contemporary compositions, recordings and newly founded music institutions from the Arab world. In this function he was a co-curator at Berlin's
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Festival 2013. In 2005 he was the curator of the project The Musical Moment at Berlin's
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featuring composers
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and
Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète". Life and works Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end of ...
. From 2005–06 he was a guest lecturer and mentor in Cairo as part of the Global Interplay project of Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart. At
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he taught the seminar "Psychoacoustics and Acoustics for Composers". Schneller is the artistic director of the SinusTon Festival for Experimental Music in Magdeburg which he co-founded with Carsten Gerth in 2008. In 2004, together with Jean-Luc Hervé and Thierry Blondeau, he formed the composers collective Biotope. Since 2009 he serves as sound arts curator of ha'atelier Platform for Philosophy and Art and Taswir Projects. His works have been recorded on Wergo, Mode, Hathut, Telos, and LJ Records. From 2009–2010 Schneller held a professorship in composition at the
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as a sabbatical replacement for Prof.
Marco Stroppa Marco Stroppa (born 8 December 1959, in Verona) is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics. Biography Marco Stroppa studied piano, composition, choral direction and electronic music at ...
. From 2012–2015 he was a professor of composition at the
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...
. In 2015 Schneller was appointed professor of composition and director of the Eastman Computer Music Center at the
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in Rochester. Since 2019 he is professor for composition at the
Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf The Robert Schumann Hochschule (Robert Schumann University of Music and Media) is a school for music studies at the university level located in Düsseldorf. The University has a student body of some 850 coming from over 40 countries. Forty-seven f ...
in Düsseldorf, where he currently resides with his wife, pianist Heather O'Donnell, and daughter.


Awards

* 1984 First prize in Instrumental Performance of the Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools * 1996 Robert Starer Prize * 1998 the Boris Rapoport Award for Composition * 1998 Meet The Composer Grant for ''Joyce Paraphrases'' * 1998–2002 Presidential fellowship from
Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
* 1999 Commissioning Prize of the
National Flute Association The National Flute Association (NFA) is the largest flute organization in the world, with roughly 5,000 members from more than 50 countries. It is an association in the United States with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. Members include soloists, ...
* 1999 Benjamin Britten Memorial Fellowship,
Tanglewood Music Center The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops. The center operates as a part of the Tanglew ...
* 2000 Paul Fromm Award
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/
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
* 2002 Residency at the Maison-Heinrich-Heine in Paris * 2004–05 Fellowship Bavarian Ministry of Science and Culture, Villa Concordia Bamberg * 2006–07 Rome Prize Fellowship of the German Academy
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* 2010 Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize * 2011 Fellowship Civitella Ranieri Foundation


Selected works


Orchestral

* ''Gammes'', full orchestra, 1995 * ''Tightrope Dancer'', full orchestra, 1996 * ''Wu Xing/Fire'', full orchestra, 2010 * ''Wu Xing/Metal'', full orchestra, 2006–11 * ''Dreamspace'', full orchestra and soloist ensemble, 2011 * "Wu Xing/Water", full orchestra, 2013–14 * ''Tropes'', full orchestra, 2014


Chamber music (1–4 players)

* ''Big City Divertimento'', 4 saxophones, 1995 * ''Kumoijoshi'', soprano saxophone, koto, 1995 * ''Hoqueterie'', alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, guitar, percussion, 1996 * ''Marsyas'', amplified flute, amplified cello, 1996 * ''Processional Suite'', 2 guitars, 1996 * ''Five Miniatures after Maurice Sendak'', French horn, trumpet, trombone, 1998 * ''Joyce Paraphrases'', amplified string quartet, tape, 1998 * ''Trio'', cello, piano, accordion, 1999 * ''Phantom Islands'', (14 players) + electronics, 2000 * ''Topoi'', clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2000 * ''Soleil in memoriam Iannis Xenakis'', flute, piano, 2001 * ''Twilight Dialogues'', flute, clarinet, viola, percussion, 2005 * ''String Space'', violin, viola, cello + electronics, 2005 * ''Resonant Space'', 2 pianos, 2 percussion, 2007 * ''per maggior intreccio'', flute, harpsichord, 2007 * ''Rugged Space'', accordion, piano + electronics, 2009 * ''Die unendliche Feinheit des Raumes'', organ, horn, tuba, percussion + electronics, 2005 * ''Vier Szenen'', flute, percussion, piano, 2010 * ''Cyan'', for two pianos and two percussions, 2011


Chamber music (5–22 players)

* ''Finnegain Speaking'', 9 players, 1997 * ''Aqua Vit'', 8 players, 1999 * ''Diastema'', 14 players, 2001–02 * ''Jardin des fleuves'', 16 players + electronics, 2002–04 * ''Clair/Obscur'', 7 players + electronics, 2005–06 * ''Stratigraphie I'', 6 players + electronics, 2007 * ''Musica ficta'', 5 players + electronics, 2008 * ''Paysage sauvage'', 4 players + electronics, 2009 * ''Stratigraphie II'', 6 players + electronics, 2009–10 * ''Kagura'', solo flute + 22 players, 2010–11 * ''Transatlantic Jukebox'', piano and chamber orchestra, 2012 * ''Amber'', two string quartets, 2011–12 * ''Alice Blue'', for ensemble, 2014 * ''Superstructure'', for six percussionists, 2014


Vocal

* ''Rice Pudding'' (text by A.A. Milne), speaker, piano, 1993 * ''Three Songs after Hopkins, Shelley and Meredith'', soprano, piano, 1994 * ''Alice Setting'' (text by Lewis Carroll), soprano, mixed chorus, piano, percussion, string orchestra, 1997 * ''Pour Schnabelmax''. ''Hommage à Max Ernst'' (text by the composer), 3 male voices, 1999 * ''Candidum lilium'' for vocal ensemble (SSTTB) + electronics, 2005 * ''Abendlied'' for voice, clavichord, violin, cello, 2009 * ''Monodie'' for voice and electronics, 2010 * ''Mugen'' for Noh voice and electronics, 2011 * ''Kireji'' for vocal ensemble and loudspeakers, 2015


Solo

* ''Vier Capricen'', piano, 1989–90 * ''Sieben Bilder'', piano, 1995 * ''Reed-Weed'', alto saxophone, 1996 * ''Labyrinth'', piano, 1996 * ''Aurora'', piano, 1997 * ''Clouds'', piano, 1998 * ''Five Imaginary Spaces'', piano + electronics, 2001 * ''And Tomorrow'', piano + electronics, 2004 * ''Turbulent Space'', recorder + electronics, 2005 * ''Track & Field'', piano, video + electronics, 2006–07 * ''Open Space'', organ + electronics, 2011


Electroacoustic + Installation

* ''Variations on a Word'', tape, 1997; Bell/Man, tape, 1998 * ''Proteus'', tape, 1999 * ''Cell Cycle'', for six channel audio + video, 2007 * ''La couleur du son'', 4 channel audio-visual installation, 2005 * ''WuXing'', five channel audio-visual installation, 2007 * ''Voice Space'', six channel interactive audio-visual installation, 2007 * ''An Atlas of Sounds'', 42 Channel audio-visual Installation, 2009–10


Collaborative works

* ''Trojan Lion'', 5.1 Channel interactive sound installation with Peter Wyss, 2010 * ''Lichtkörper'' (2009): 4 Channel Sound Installation for suspended speakers with Alexander Polzin, 2009 * ''IO'', 5.1 Channel Installation with Curtis Anderson, 2006 * ''Cento Correnti'' (2006) 20.1 Channel Sound Installation with Iris Dupper, 2006 * ''Ritratto Romano'', Soundtrack to a video work of Christoph Brech, 2006 * ''Duets I–VII'' (2006–11): Soundtracks to seven video works of Eberli/Mantel, 2006–11 * ''Imperfect Enjoyment'', Soundtrack to a video work of Almut Determeyer, 2004


Arrangements

* ''Sechs kleine Klavierstücke'' (Nos. 1, 2, 6), Op. 19 (Arnold Schoenberg), orchestra, 1989 * ''Zehn Märsche um den Sieg zu verfehlen'' (Nos. 5, 9) (Mauricio Kagel), orchestra, 1995 * ''All of Me'', full orchestra, 2007 * ''My Funny Valentine'', full orchestra, 2007 * "You're the Top", wind band, 2012


Publications

* "Klänge einer Ausstellung . Anmerkungen zum kontrapunktischen Soundparcours von Taswir", in: ''TASWIR. Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne'', Nicolai Verlag Berlin, 2009, pp. 133–137 * ''Akustisches Modell und komponierte Struktur'', Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt 2008, Schott Verlag Mainz, 2009, pp. 183–189 * ''Sechs Werke von Sebastian Stier''. Schott Verlag/WERGO Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (
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), Booklettext WER 6569 2 (2008) * "Migration and Identity: Perspectives in Contemporary Arabic Music", ''Jahrbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik'', Pfau Verlag, 2006, pp. 127–139 * "HörRaum Stadt", ''Jahrbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik 2003/2004'', Pfau Verlag 2006, pp. 99–100 * "Raumklang-Klangraum: Über Pierre Boulez' Répons", ''Magazin der Berliner Philharmoniker'', October 2005, pp. 38–40 * "Braucht die Neue Musik den Kammermusiksaal?", ''Bauwelt'' 8/05 (2005), pp. 26–27 * ''A Contemporary Response to Charles Ives'' in: Berliner Festspiele (Hg.), MaerzMusik. Festival für aktuelle Musik 2004, Saarbrücken (Pfau) 2004, pp. 146–153 * ''Klangschicht und Zeitharmonik. Begegnung mit Gottfried Michael Koenig'', program booklet for the 3rd Magdeburg Concerts. Festtage zur Musikgeschichte Magdeburgs, October 2003 * ''Music und Raum'', Research Commission from the House of World Cultures (HKW) Berlin 2003 * "Sonic Arts in Germany", M.I.T. Press, ''
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'' 26, 4 (Spring 2002), pp. 54–57 * "Chambres Séparées, KOMA, entrop, Zwischenwelten: Gerhard Winkler", M.I.T. Press, ''Computer Music Journal'' 25, 1 (2001): pp. 75–76 * "Material Matters", ''Current Musicology 67/68'' (Winter 2002): pp. 156–174 * "IRCAM at Columbia 1999", ''Dossier d'Information IRCAM'', No. 18 (October 2000), pp. 136–138) * "Musik und Utopie", ''Universalmaschine'', no. 2, Berlin (2001), pp. 68–70 * ''Donald Martino's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra'', CD-liner text New World Records, ''Recorded Anthology of American Music'', No. 80529-2 (1998)


Translations (selection)

* "Helmut Lachenmann – Four Questions Regarding New Music", translated into English for ''Contemporary Music Review'', vol. 23, no. 3/4 (September 2004) * James Harley: "Sonic and Parametrical Entities in Tetras: An Analytical Approach to the Music of Iannis Xenakis", translated into German for ''Musiktexte'' 91 (December 2001) * Neil Leonard (1994): "Kompromißlos und fortschrittlich. Juan Blanco: Kubas Pionier der Elektroakustischen Musik", translated into German for ''Musiktexte'' 96 (May 2003)


References


External links

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Sound Object and Composed Space
' by Markus Böggemann (text, English) © Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, 2010 *
Entretien avec Oliver Schneller
' by Eric Denut (text, French) © accents. la revue de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain No. 24, 2004 *
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