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Andreas Schnee
Andreas Schnee is a pianist, composer and music educator whose work scans classical, vocal and stage repertoire. Alongside an active performing career in chamber music and vocal accompaniment, he is also active as a composer and dedicated teacher, with a particular affinity for opera, operetta and musical theatre.
Andreas Schnee studied piano with Horst Matthäus and music theory and counterpoint with Helmut Schiff at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, where he also qualified as a piano teacher. At the Mozarteum University Salzburg, he completed a degree in Music Education (with distinction), studying with Prof. Schneider-Cuvey (piano), Ernst Ludwig Leitner (school composition) and Wolfgang Roscher (polyaesthetics). He also attended organ improvisation seminars with Rupert Gottfried Frieberger and was awarded the Composition Prize of the Province of Upper Austria.
As a pianist, he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician, with a particular focus on vocal repertoire (Lied recitals and excerpts from operas, operettas, musical theatre and jazz). He has collaborated with numerous musical partners, including Michaela Oberndorfer-Selinger, Benedikt Kobel, Elisabeth Freundlinger, Martina Dorak, Cassandra McConnel, Franz Binder, Valentina Kutzarova , Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger, Guillermo Olivares, Carmen Barros, Michael Novak, Karl Lobensommer, Christine Pree, Maya Hakvoort and Jacqueline Braun, Charlie Haynes as well as Martha Eggert and Johannes Heesters.
He has appeared with ensembles such as the Jeunesse Orchestra Linz, the Welser Bach Choir, the Salzburg Virgil Schola, the Salzburg Belcanto Choir and the Gen Rosso group, and plays regular operetta and musical concerts with the "Salonensemble Potpourri". He also worked as a pianist and répétiteur at the Léhar Festival Bad Ischl.
His compositional work includes choral and chamber music, church music, film music, ballets and a jazz revue, songs and orchestral arrangements (particularly for musical theatre). As a music educator, he teaches at the Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering and at the Adalbert Stifter Gymnasium Linz.