Biography
Oliver Martin Schneller (b. 26 March 1966 Cologne) is a German composer and saxophonist.
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, he worked for the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal (1990–91).
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As a saxophonist, he has performed with the George Russell Big Band, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra as a soloist in Tan Dun's "Red Forecast", as well as with musicians such as Steve Drury, Heather O'Donnell, Jiggs Whigham (Big Band), Bernhard Lang, Ned McGowan, Robin Hayward, Vinko Globokar, 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.
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