Moritz Schneidewendt

°1989, in Freiburg/Brg.,
lives and works in Offenbach/Main

Rough granite and blooming moss - a political debate - an interactive online game. In his artistic work, Moritz Schneidewendt combines different worlds and listens to the unexpected.

As a musician and artist, he creates experiences that are both touching and thought-provoking. He follows the unknown, looks behind things and faces up to his social responsibility.

With his ensembles Broken Frames Syndicate, Kommas Ensemble and ensemble via nova, Moritz develops new formats and tells personal stories of the unfamiliar on stage. His view of the world is characterized by an boundless curiosity and fascination for contemporary music in all its facets.

Moritz Schneidewendt tends to work in an interdisciplinary way in order to convey the multi-layered themes of our time and complex aesthetics. He combines his classical training as a clarinettist and bass clarinettist with the means and techniques of other artistic disciplines and seeks dialog with others. His conceptual concert design creates experiences that convey more than just entertainment. 

After completing his master's degree with distinction, new doors opened for him at the International Ensemble Modern Academy.

Since 2018, Schneidewendt leads the resulting Broken Frames Syndicate, which was supported by the German Music Council and awarded the Ensemble Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2024.

He uses his artistic ensemble work to promote the diversification of musical life and to open up spaces for social discourse.

In close collaboration with young composers and artists from other disciplines and as a sought-after chamber musician, Moritz can be met and experienced worldwide - at the same time, he writes, thinks and experiments in his Offenbach studio.

Education

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2024
Concerto21 academy

2019
Master of Arts — Contemporary music at the HfMDK Frankfurt

2017—2018
International Ensemble Modern Academy

2017
Master of Arts— Clarinet at the HfM Weimar with Prof. Th. Johanns

2014
Diploma—Clarinet at the HfM Würzburg with Prof. M. Lindner

2010
Musicology studies at the University of Würzburg

Work experience

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Permanent member of Broken Frames Syndicate | ensemble via nova | Kommas Ensemble

2024
Broken Frames Syndicate is awarded the Ernst von Siemens Ensembleprize

Since 2020
Work on interdisciplinary projects with Paul Pape and Raphael Languillat: Tanzkamera Obscura | Tension | Duo lowcontrast

Since 2020
Studio space at the "Atelier Wäscherei" Offenbach — interdisciplinary projects, experiments, ensemble work

Since 2020
Support by the German Music Council — Broken Frames Syndicate in the "InSzene" programme

2019
Artist in Residence of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau | Kurt Weill Fest

2019
Chamber music lecturer for Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Since 2018
Guest with Ensemble Modern

Since 2018
artistic director, management and clarinetist of the Broken Frames Syndicate

Orchestra

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regular substitute with Ensemble Modern

active substitute activity with Meininger Hofkapelle, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Philharmonie Jena, Staatskapelle Weimar a.o.

2014
Deputy principal clarinettist at the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig | Oper Leipzig

2013—2014
Staatstheater Mainz

Chamber music

My great passion is chamber music. As a guest of various formations and with my own ensembles, I am regularly on the road and cultivate a versatile repertoire of diverse works. In addition to contemporary sounds, I am equally at home with classical literature.

Collaboration with ensembles and colleagues
Ensemble Modern, Orchester im Treppenhaus, Broken Frames Syndicate, ensemble via nova, Kommas Ensemble, ur.werk Ensemble, Ensemble Risonanze Erranti, Vortex Ensemble, Lux:NM, Bärmann Trio, Ensemble Reflektor, Marie-Thérèse Zahnlecker, Heinz Holliger, Thorsten Johanns, Andreas Langenbuch, Miguel Pérez Iñesta, Wu Wei, a.o. 

︎Orchester im Treppenhaus
Circling Realities
Multimedial and played by heart

• Judd Greenstein: Clearing, Dawn, Dance
• Benjamin Scheuer: Testudo (UA)
  
• Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
  
• Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

︎Orchester im Treppenhaus
Nachtkerzen 

• a.o. Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet op. 115

︎Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps

• Internat. Musiktage im Dom zu Speyer (2021)
  

• Internat. Messiaentage Görlitz (15.1.2023)
  

• Night concert at Kammermusikfestival Würzburg (2021)
  

• with BFS a.o. in Wiesbaden and Paris

︎Duos with Wu Wei
New works for sheng and clarinet


︎Ensemble Modern 

• Theresienstädter Komponisten, works by Rudolf Karel, Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein
• Diaghilev-Festival 2018, Perm
• Alte Oper Frankfurt
• Frankfurt Lab

︎Chamber Music Festival Würzburg

• Igor Stravinsky: L’histoire du soldat
  
• Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

︎ Portrait: Patrice Sciortino
With Bärmanntrio and musicians of the HR BigBand at Naxoshalle Frankfurt

Broken Frames Syndicate

Broken Frames Syndicate is a ten-piece soloist ensemble from Frankfurt dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary music and the further development of a contemporary concert culture.

For our innovative project ideas and the already distinct frequency in the great sound of contemporary music, we were awarded the Ensemble Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2024.

Broken Frames Syndicate combines excellent ensemble playing with innovative, socio-political concepts, questions norms and expands the listening experience through interdisciplinary collaborations and in-house productions.

The ensemble was founded in 2018 after the International Ensemble Modern Academy. It is now at home in the Frankfurt cultural space "Netzwerk Seilerei" - where the group rehearses, experiments and organizes itself.
We also perform regularly in concerts in Germany and abroad.


︎︎︎ brokenframessyndicate.com
︎︎︎ Soundcloud


Members
    Lola Rubio, Violin
    William Overcash, Violin
    Laura Hovestadt, Viola
    Nathan Watts, Violoncello
    Katrin Szamatulski, Flute
    Moritz Schneidewendt, Clarinet
    Peng-Hui Wang, Bassoon
    Talvi Hunt, Piano
    Yu-Ling Chiu, Percussion
    Lautaro Mura Fuentealba, Conductor
    Paul Pape, visual art

Management – artistic direction
    Moritz Schneidewendt
    Katrin Szamatulski

We question the existing.

We draw strength from fractures.

We are the Broken Frames Syndicate.

We cooperate with young composers and put current music into the context of topics that matter to us.

Follow us into new worlds.

Kommas Ensemble

Kommas Ensemble is a Cologne-based contemporary music formation. A special focus is on the latest developments in Latin American new music. With conceptual programmes, Latin American composers in Germany are given a platform to broaden the spectrum of contemporary music here and thus contribute to a democratisation of the global music business.

Latin American composers, new artistic positions and socio-political themes from Latin America are to be increasingly reflected in our programmes.


︎︎︎kommas-ensemble.de

Members
    Johannes Haase, violin
    Alba Gonzales Becerra, viola
    Kyubin Hwang, cello
    Maruta Staravoitava, flute
    Moritz Schneidewendt, clarinet
    Alberto Carnevale Ricci, piano
    Ramon Gardella, percussion
    Lautaro Mura Fuentealba, conductor
    Francisco C. Goldschmidt, composer

ensemble via nova

We are dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary chamber music.

Our projects include electronics, improvisation, scenic elements and light installations that are integrated into new concert formats. We particularly enjoy performing premieres and therefore collaborate closely with composers. In this way, we cultivate a broad repertoire of new works dedicated to us.

Since 2016, we have been playing in the same instrumentation - flute, clarinet, accordion, violin and violoncello. Our own concert series at the Erfurt Kunsthalle REFLEXIONEN - CO|:N:|ECT - TRANSFORM - FUSION, however, seek contact with other musicians. We have realised projects with ensembles such as Ensemble Mosaik, Black Pencil (NL), NeoQuartet (PL), Pluto's Tide Dance Company, Good Mori (KOR), UMS'n JIP (CH) and the jazz musician Wolfgang Lackerschmidt.

Regularly we perform on international stages and at festivals. Some of our highlights have been trips to Seoul and Daegu, London, Italy, Switzerland, Gdansk or Barcelona.


︎︎︎ensemblevianova.de

new music. unconducted. international.

Members
    Marianna Schürmann, Flute
    Moritz Schneidewendt, Clarinet
    Nikita Geller, Violin
    Daniel Gutiérrez, Cello
    Neža Torkar, Accordion