Awards & Winners

Maria Schneider

Date of Birth 27-November-1960
Place of Birth Windom
(Cottonwood County, Minnesota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Schneider, Maria
Profession Composer, Music Arranger
Maria Schneider is an American composer and big-bandleader. Her 2004 album Concert in the Garden won a GRAMMY for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album,. Her 2007 composition, Cerulean Skies won a GRAMMY for 'Best Instrumental Composition." In 2013, Schneider released an album Winter Morning Walks featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, The Saint Paul and Australian Chamber Orchestras, bassist, Jay Anderson, pianist, Frank Kimbrough, and multi-instrumentalist, Scott Robinson. In 2014 it won three GRAMMY Awards: Best Classical Contemporary Composition for the work Winter Morning Walks written to poetry by US Poet-Laureate, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Ted Kooser. Dawn Upshaw received a GRAMMY for her vocal performance on the same recording, and producer, David Frost, and engineers, Tim Martyn and Brian Losch all received GRAMMYs for Best Engineered Album, Classical. The album fan-funded through ArtistShare is surely one of the first, if not the first album by major American orchestras to be fan-funded.

Awards by Maria Schneider

Check all the awards nominated and won by Maria Schneider.

2013


Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Honored for : Winter Morning Walks

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition Winter Morning Walks

2007


Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
Honored for : Cerulean Skies
(Composer)

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Cerulean Skies

2004


Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Honored for : Concert in the Garden
(Engineers/Mixers, Artist)

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Concert in the Garden