Werner von Schnitzler

August 7, 2006 at 06:35 AM · Wasn't he the rocket scientist in that Mel Brooks movie?

August 9, 2009 at 05:08 PM ·

I heard him too. He is incredible!!

He is teacher at Musiekoschulen of Cologne but he did not a career. I don't know why

August 9, 2009 at 06:07 PM ·

I had the good fortune to play with Werner at a chamber music festival in Cornwall.  In addition to being a fantastic violinist, he is also a really kind person.

Cheers,

~Nathan

August 10, 2009 at 05:40 AM ·

German? I thought he was Korean!!!

February 9, 2013 at 04:35 PM · Saint Saens: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso

Werner von Schnitzler, violin. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Gerd Albrecht, conductor, March 1993

February 9, 2013 at 06:01 PM · Superb. what a natural.

Still active, here:

The violinist and violist Werner von Schnitzler was born in 1978 in Cologne. He studied with Igor Ozim in Cologne, Pinchas Zukerman in New York as well as with Viktor Tretyakov, Antoine Tamestit (viola) and Harald Schoneweg (chamber music) in Cologne.

Solo performances as violinist Werner von Schnitzler in Israel and many European musical centers such as Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Zurich (Tonhalle and Opera House), Munich (Philharmonie am Gasteig), Vienna (Konzerthaus and Musikverein Hall), Cologne (Philharmonie), Stockholm (Concert Hall) , Hamburg (Music Hall), Birmingham (Symphony Hall), Frankfurt (Alte Oper) and Berlin (theater) with renowned orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dutch and Danish Radio-Symphony

never Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Bamberg Symphonic

cians, the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Hamburg Philharmonic. conducted by Sandor Vegh, Heinrich Schiff, Pinchas Zukerman, Gerd Albrecht, Hans Vonk, Edmond de Stoutz, Marcus Creed and Emmanuel Krivine

Werner von Schnitzler won numerous first prizes in national and international competition

applying such as "Young Musicians" at the national competition, the Yfrah Neaman-competitive

competition in Mainz, the Dutch television competition "SNS Music Award" and in May 2008 the Competition of the German Rectors' Conference in Freiburg.

Numerous television and radio broadcasts for ARD and ZDF, the Radio Free Berlin, WDR, Hessian Radio, ORF, the Radio Suisse Romande, the Danish, Dutch, French and Slovenian television documents Iren the vast repertoire of the artist, who has been 2007 as a soloist and chamber musician also reinforced the viola emerges.

Werner von Schnitzler's first violinist of Schnitzler Quartet, which already have a grant from the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl received Dörken Foundation. His CD with works by Beethoven's contemporaries Johann Wilhelm Wilms appeared in May 2010 at the Ars Produktion label.

Highlights in recent years and others were a guest at the Brühl Castle concerts and a performance by the quartet in which Schnitzler moderated by Harald Schmidt of the concert series "favorites" in Klaus von Bismarck-Saal in Cologne. In 2012, the quartet has been a guest in the festival organized by WDR 3 "Young String Quartets 2012". Regular collaboration Werner von Schnitzler also connects with the boy Phil-

monie Cologne.

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