French-Swiss violinist Georges-Emmanuel Schneider studied for eight years with the legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, which was followed by a busy concert life as a soloist, chamber musician and ensemble player throughout Europe and worldwide. Throughout all this time Georges had showed a strong interest for contemporary and avant-garde music. Since years now as a sound artist he also deals with electronic music and searches for new ways of expression with his instrument. In 2018 he completed his expertise in this field in achieving a Max/MSP certification at the IRCAM in Paris. Georges’s violin playing is highly versatile and stands for avant-garde, jazz, free improvising, electroacoustic music, ambient, electronic beats and above all for a unique fusion sound that unites elements of all these music genres in order to create a new way of playing the violin. 

 

The outcome of this work has been presented in several records that have been released between 2017 and 2020: the ambient albums Assassinous Act (Time Released Sound, Oakland California 2017), Für Immer (Off Record, Brussels 2020) and Vermacht (Mixcult, St. Petersburg 2020) with German music producer Morgen Wurde, the free jazz albums Kontergesang and Rhizome with Udo Schindler/Gunter Pretzel (Creative Sources Recordings, Lisbon, 2019) and the jazz/ classical music fusion album Sound of a poem with vocalist Esther Kretzinger (Gramola, Vienna 2017, also available as a LP). The complete performance of Rajesh Mehta’s skycage at the Moers Festival 2020 was broadcasted live by tv channel ARTE TV, featuring Georges’s violin playing. Georges’s work focuses also on cooperating with visual artists as Marianne Hollenstein (Basel) and the fashion label Finch (Kiew), TOMAK (Vienna) or Albert Weis (Berlin).