Opera
PKHENTZ! (upcoming)
An opera in one act after a story by Andrei Sinyavsky
Company: subLIMINAL Opera Inc.
Singers: Coloratura Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, & One Child Actor
Instrumentation: 1111/sax/1100/accordion/2 perc/pno/2221
Duration: 60'
An opera in one act after a play by Sławomir Mrożek
Singers: Tenor, Baritone, Female Vocalist
Instrumentation: fl/cl/accordion/pno/perc/2 vln/2 vla/2 vcl
Duration: 25'
Eighth Blackbird, Pacifica String Quartet, and more
Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
An opera in one act after a story by Gabriel García Márquez
For piano and five singers
Duration: 45'
Amherst College Music Department, Amherst, MA
Orchestra
For chamber orchestra
2212/2200/Piano/Percussion/Strings
Duration: 11'
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Saint Paul, MI
Chamber & Solo
"Goes A-a-a-h": Quartet Bossa Nova for the Brazilian Rainforest
for string quartet
Duration: 8'
Cassatt Quartet
Oktaven Studios, NY
Duration: 20'
for string quartet
Cassatt Quartet
Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, Mass.
for two violins
Duration: 6'30''
Marie Comuzzo and Victoria Senko, violins
Five College New Music Festival
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
For solo piano
Duration: 4'
Dylan Schneider, piano
Are-We-There-Yet Festival, Amherst College
Perversion No. 2
For Toy Piano
Duration: 4'
Judith Gordon, toy piano
Smith College
For Flute and Violin
Duration: 2'30''
Constance Volk (flute) and Austin Wulliman (violin)
Fulton Recital Hall – Chicago
Dances in Incendiary Keys: Piano Quintet
For Piano and String Quartet
Duration: 19'
Lisa Kaplan & The Pacifica String Quartet
Contempo TMT - The University of Chicago
For solo piano
Duration: 6'
Dylan Schneider, piano
New Music Ensemble - University of Chicago
Collision Course: Toccata for Cello & Piano
Duration: 12'
Premiere: April 9, 2011
Amy Briggs (piano) and Paula Kosower (cello)
Soundquakes - The University of Chicago
For Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, Piano
Duration: 5'
Eighth Blackbird
Contempo: Tomorrow's Music Today
University of Chicago
For Solo Flute
Duration: 6'
Tim Munro (flutist, Eighth Blackbird)
Contempo: Tomorrow's Music Today
University of Chicago
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Duration: 9'
Dylan Schneider, piano - Ed Tandinsky, clarinet
Amherst College Department of Music
For Solo Piano
Durations: 0:30-4 min. each; 35' total
Dylan Schneider, piano
Amherst College Department of Music
Vocal & Choral
A song cycle based on the poetry of Líber Falco
For Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Cello, & Piano
Duration: 10'
Patricia Michaels, soprano
New Music Ensemble - University of Chicago
A Process in the Weather of the Heart
For Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, Piano
Duration: 15'
Julia Fox, soprano
Amherst College - Department of Music
After poem by Dylan Thomas
Music for Shakepseare's Hamlet
For Soprano and Piano
Duration: 8'
Kit Wallach (soprano), Dylan Schneider (piano)
Amherst College - Department of Music
Buddha in Glory
For a cappella choir (SATB)
Duration: 6'
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
Amherst College - Department of Music
Installations & Multimedia
Interactive Exhibit
Premiere: Pilot Hill Center for Higher Consciousness
Description: Visitors to an Art Gallery interact with a MIDI device
that transforms their inputs into a rich soundscape
Mahleria
For Laptop
Premiere: Amherst College, Department of Music
Description: Voices of noted musicians, reflecting on Mahler,
become the source material for a work that evokes the
atmosphere of the first movement of Mahler's 9th Symphony
Orchestrations & Arrangements
Numerous orchestrations and arrangements are available for ensembles of various sizes, and new commissions are accepted. Click below for an example:
Prokofiev: Scherzino for Piano - Op. 52, No. 4
Arranged for Chamber Ensemble by Dylan Schneider
Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
University of Chicago
Box of Surprises (2017) for solo piano
This piece employs a cyclic form. At the outset, a constellation of motives, sonorities, and gestures emerges in stark juxtaposition. Each of these minute musical seeds is developed and juxtaposed again, in a more evolved iteration of the cycle. Wash, rinse, and repeat. Before long, it starts to take quite a bit of time to “make it” through any one of these individual strains: they each sprout into entire sections of music, often interrupting one another as bits of one strain intrude on another.
I make a significant distinction in this piece between linear music (forward moving) and more static moments (let's call them hammocks for the brain) that afford the listener opportunities to reflect on where we've come—and how we got there.
— Dylan Schneider, August 20, 2017
STRIP-TEASE (2013) chamber opera
STRIP-TEASE received its premiere during the inaugural season of the Logan Center for the Arts, as part of the Contempo series at the University of Chicago. The performance featured three singers and the University of Chicago’s two Grammy-Award-winning ensembles in residence: eighth blackbird and the Pacifica String Quartet.
In the opera, a pair of office workers find themselves detained, for unknown reasons, in an empty room. Instead of escaping through the unlocked doors, the men quarrel about whether or not they are truly free to leave. Soon, however, it is too late: a supernatural, man-sized hand crawls into the room, subjecting the pair to outlandish punishments.
HEAR/ACT (2016) sound installation
I have always been fascinated by the notion of a piece that would blur the boundaries between composer, performer, and audience. In 2016, my installation project, entitled Hear/Act, allowed viewers in a gallery to interact with an instrument I created using a nine-square MIDI pad linked to a laptop running Max/MSP. My program transforms the participant’s simple inputs of velocity and duration into a rich soundscape, allowing the user to create nuanced improvisations.
By Dylan Schneider
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
All scores are available upon request.
Please contact: dylanschneider@gmail.com
Prokofiev: Scherzino Op. 52, No. 4
Arranged by Dylan Schneider
Tim Munro, flute