Teaching
Even after the end of his full-time position as a professor at the HfMDK Frankfurt, Michael Schneider continues to be active in teaching in his roles as conductor, ensemble leader and instrumental soloist.
Teaching assignments
2019-2022
HfMDK Frankfurt/M, (chamber music, Bach seminar for pianists)
Musikhochschule Mainz (operas and oratorios by Monteverdi, Handel and Stradella)
HfM Weimar. (Oratorio staged: La Giuditta by A.. Scarlatti)
Master classes / workshops & private lessons
2019-2022
Frankfurt/M
2021
Taipei/Taiwan (via zoom)
2022
TAMIS (Tage Alter Musik im Saarland)
jury memberships
- He has repeatedly acted as a juror at the biennial International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg (last in 2020).
- Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (Deutscher Musikrat)
- Concours musica Antiqua Brügge
- Blockflötenwettbewerbe Calw
author
- Author of specific articles and reviews about topics concerning Early Music and especially flute-playing and flute-repertoire. Co-Editor of the woodwind-magazine “tibia” until 2020 (Moeck-Verlag)
Connected to Michael Schneider’s pedagogical activities several different publications were released: mainly music editions and one pocket -book about “Basic knowledge in baroque opera”.
The Items:
- Studies on Bach’s Partita a-minor for solo flute BWV 1013, (collaboration with Panos Linakis) I. a with. reconstruction of a basso continuo part and ornamented version of the Sarabande
https://www.panagiotislinakis.com/shop/ - Daniel Demoivre, 7 Suites for Recorder and Bc, (collaboration with Winfried Michel) Verlag Mieroprint 2 Volumes (with reconstruction of the lost bass-part)
https://www.mieroprint.com/eng/early-music/new-editions/345/7-suiten-daniel-demoivre - Anonymus: „Durham Ground“ for Violin, obligato harpsichord and violoncello Unique example of extended variations on a Sarabande by Corelli with an extremely virtuosic written out harpsichord part.
https://www.edition-walhall.de/en/Ground-Durham-/-Anonym-18.-Jh.:-Variationen-ueber-ein-Thema-von-Corelli-op.-5/7.html?language=en
Bärenreiter-Editions:
- J. Fr. Kleinknecht. 2 Sonatas for Transverse flute and Bc (b-minor and e-minor)
https://www.baerenreiter.com/en/shop/product/details/BA6825/ - „Sonatas of old English masters” for recorder and Bc , Vol III
https://www.baerenreiter.com/en/shop/product/details/HM237/ - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, 2 Sonatas for Violin and Bc
https://www.baerenreiter.com/en/shop/product/details/HM239/
Pocket book:
- Basic knowledge on baroque opera
https://www.conbrio.de/autoren/michael-schneider
Topics
- Stylistics of flute music (e.g. Telemann fantasies,/ J.S Bach flute works/ Vivaldi concerti)
- Playing technique recorder
- Performance practice and stylistics of music d. 17th - 19th centuries for instrumentalists and voice (e.g. to: piano cycles by JS Bach, chamber cantatas
- of the 18th century. Italian and German oratorios, Baroque art of ornamentation)
Dates and conditions of universities, academies, course organizers and individuals on request