Urs Peter Schneider

Urs Peter Schneider is a Swiss composer and pianist, born in Bern in 1939. He studied piano with Walter Lang and Bruno Seidlhofer and composition with Sándor Veress and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1968 co-founded the Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern. His work ranges from strictly built chamber music to rule-based concepts, language pieces and music theatre. Schneider taught for many years at the Bern conservatory, later the Musikhochschule, and received the Grosser Musikpreis des Kantons Bern in 1983.