Biography

Orquesta de Arturo Schneider's biography

At age 80, Arturo Eric Schneider will make his debut at Buenos Aires Jazz 2009 as instrumentalist, arranger and conductor of a big band.
Schneider took his first professional steps in the city of Rosario, alongside local bands. In 1950 he settled in Buenos Aires, became a member of Barry Moral’s orchestra and went on studying clarinet, sax, flute, harmony and orchestration with Ruggero Lavecchia, Alfredo Montanaro, Jorge Barone and Martín Darré, respectively.
He continued to perform with different popular orchestras, singers, the National Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, and on several occasions at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Since 1960 he has worked with countless artists, including
Víctor Buchino, Carlos García, Rodolfo Mederos, Lucio Milena, Osvaldo Berlingieri, Dante Amicarelli, Pancho Nolé, Buby Lavecchia, Pocho Gatti, Eduardo Armani, Xavier Cugat, Nat “King” Cole, Los Bambucos, Lalo Schifrin, Johnny Ray, Ethel Smith, Cab Calloway, Ray Nolan, Johnny Mandel, Celia Cruz, Henry Mancini, Don Costa, Burt Bacharach, Baby López Fürst, Néstor Marconi and Billy May.
He toured Europe, Japan and the United States and for 18 consecutive years was a regular member of the orchestra of Channel 13, in Buenos Aires.
For many years he recorded, appeared and toured with composer, arranger, conductor and bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla. Worthy of mention is his performance on the alto sax and the clarinet at the historic concert Astor Piazzolla and his New Group at the Carnegie Hall in New York, on 24 May 1976.