Jazz

Daniel Schnyder

The Swiss American composer Daniel was born 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland and lives in New York City. Among his credits as a composer are commissions to write new works for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra ...
Los Angeles Times

Duke Ellington revisited

Daniel Schnyder spends nearly every day walking in Duke Ellington’s footsteps. Literally. The Pacific Symphony’s composer-in-residence, who will perform Thursday through Sunday at the Segerstrom ...
BroadwayWorld

Pacific Symphony Celebrates Daniel Schnyder & Duke Ellington this May

In an ongoing quest to make new musical discoveries through its acclaimed American Composers Festival (ACF), Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, this year celebrates the music of ...
Jazz

Daniel Schnyder and Matt Herskowitz Play "Schumann and All That Jazz"

Jazz + Robert Schumann? Why not? On February 3rd, the Lyric Chamber Music Society will celebrate Schumann's 200th anniversary by featuring jazz arrangements of Schumann's works by virtuosos Daniel ...
Jazz

Daniel Schnyder and the Manhattan Brass Quinted Perform Euphoria and Other Works at the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York

Asked about his intentions in composing EUPHORIA, Daniel Schnyder says: “The focus is on the story itself and its utopian resolution, a conclusion in 'seven' chapters. (The holy number 7 usually ...
The Guardian

Charlie Parker's Yardbird review – beauty, anger and poetry, but the jazz great's genius eludes us

Daniel Schnyder’s ambitious classical-jazz fusion opera features a remarkable central performance from tenor Lawrence Brownlee Daniel Schnyder’s opera about the death and life of Charlie Parker was ...
NPR

Opera And Jazz Mingle In 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird'

You often don't think of opera at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Tonight that changes: Charlie Parker's Yardbird gets its New York premiere there. It's an opera about the jazz saxophonist on the ...