2015北京国际作曲大师班主创团队简介

Oliver Schneller

　　Oliver Schneller was born in Cologne, Germany in 1966, grew up in Europe, Africa and SouthEast Asia. He studied composition with Tristan Murail, at Columbia University in New York, where he completed his doctorate in Music Composition in 2002 He obtained his Masters Degree in Composition with Lee Hyla at the New England Conservatory and additionally studied with Thea Musgrave and John Corigliano at the Graduate Center of City University New York. During his studies he received important orientations from Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, and George Benjamin.

　　The focus of Oliver Schneller’s compositional work lies in the creation of networks between musical instruments, architectural spaces and live computer processing. From 2002-2004 he was “compositeur en recherche” at IRCAM.. His works have been presented at numerous international music festivals including Festival Présences Paris, Biennale Quatuor á cordes Paris, MATA New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, the “Millenium Stage Series" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Festival Résonances, Festival Agora Paris, Wien Modern, Munich Biennale, Maerzmusik Berlin, Witten Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Ultraschall Berlin, Musica, IFNM Darmstadt, Musicacoustica Beijing, ICMC 2003 Singapore and Takefu New Horizons Festival (Japan). He has received commissions from radio stations in Germany, IRCAM, the Fromm Foundation, Meet The Composer, Radio France, Tanglewood, ZKM Karlsruhe, SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Radio France and the Berliner Festspiele. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, musikFabrik, Ictus, Court-Circuit, Speculum musicae, Wet Ink, New York New Music Ensemble and Tanglewood Symphony Orchestra, .

　　As a saxophonist, Schneller has performed with ensembles such as the George Russell Big Band, the Gustav Mahler Youth Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and the Tanglewood Symphony as a soloist in Tan Dun's Red Forcast, under the direction of the composer.

　　Besides his work as a composer Oliver Schneller is actively involved in intercultural and cross-disciplinary projects. In 2004 he was the founder and artistic director of "Tracing Migrations", a music festival in Berlin, featuring the works of contemporary emerging composers from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. In 2005 he curated a project on «East Asian and Western Concepts of Musical Beauty» at Berlin's House of World Cultures with composers Toshio Hosokawa and Helmut Lachenmann. In 2006 he was a lecturer and mentor for young composers from Cairo as part of the Global Interplay Project hosted by Musik der Jahrhunderte/SWR Stuttgart. From 1990-91 he worked for the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal on a project to support and sustain indigenous music cultures.

　　Schneller has held residencies at Ircam/Centre Pompidou, Cincinnati Conservatory, Takefu (Japan), ZKM Karlsruhe, Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg and is the recipient of the Fromm Prize from Harvard University, four ASCAP Awards, and fellowships from the Siemens Music Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Columbia University and the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo. His works are published by Edition Peters and his music has been released on the Mode Records, Wergo, Hathut, Telos and CPO Labels.

　　From 2009-10 Schneller held a professorship in composition at the Conservatory of Music in Stuttgart as sabbatical replacement for Prof. Marco Stroppa. Since 2012 he serves as professor of composition at Hannover Conservatory of Music, where he is also the director of «Incontri – Institute for New Music».