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Oliver Schnyder
Oliver Schnyder (born October 3, 1973 in Brugg, Switzerland) is a Swiss classical pianist.
Education.
Oliver Schnyder studied with Emmy Henz-Diémand (taking his teaching and concert diploma of the Swiss Music Pedagogic Association SMPA in 1994), then studied in the master class of Homero Francesch at the Zurich University of the Arts, taking his solo diploma in 1998. He thereafter studied briefly with Ruth Laredo at the Manhattan School of Music in New York (1998) and from 1998 to 2001
May 2015).
Further renowned conductors with whom Schnyder has performed include Semyon Bychkov (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, on tour in 2010), Howard Griffiths and Muhai Tang.
Oliver Schnyder is the pianist of the "Schnyder Trio", which he founded in 2012 (as the Oliver Schnyder Trio) together with violinist Andreas Janke and the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger. The Trio gave its debut in the Zurich Tonhalle on 4 February 2012 with Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major.
Cultural involvement