SANDRO SCHNEEBELI BIOGRAPHY

guitar player
composer
producer (NEVEmusic)

Sandro Schneebeli was born in 1974 in Lugano. In 1994, after the Swiss Italian graduated from high school, he moved to the Swiss German city Berne where he studied music at the "Swiss Jazz School". At the same time he started to work professionally as a freelance guitarist, composer and producer.

He is often invited abroad to perform within various music projects, in
particular in the United States, Madagascar, India, Greece, Italy,
Kosovo, Lussemburg, England, Perù, Belgium, Spain and Germany.

As a versatile musician blessed with a great musical and stylistical
sensibility, he has played and still plays with Brazilian, Indian, Jamaican, American, Swiss and Argentine musicians.
For example: Victor Lewis, Paul McCandless, Bobby Watson, Eugenio Finardi, Giora Feidmann, Rupak Kulkarni, Claudio Taddei, Kalinath Mishra, Gabriel Rivano, George Robert, Rahni Krija, Luis Ribeiro, Daniele di Bonaventura, John Boutté, Sandy Patton, Leon Duncan, Stephan Rigert, Prita Roy, Dudu Penz, Michael Zisman, Daniel Zisman and the MIT Symphony Orchestra of Boston.
      

He has also been invited to prestigious International Music Festivals and
has played at many well known venues such as:
Madajazzcar Festival Antananarivo Madagascar// 
Midem, Cannes, France// Festival Musica du Mundo, Lima, Perù//
Menuhin Festival Gstaad, 2004, Switzerland// Guitarfestival, Biel, 2010, Switzerland //Estival Jazz Lugano,Switzerland//
Kilian Hall, Boston, USA// Kresge Auditorium, Boston, USA// Fuerte Ventura Jazz Festival, Spain// Blue Frog, Mumbai, India//
Café Central, Madrid, Spain// Ritmo y compas, Madrid, Spain// Pearl’s Jazz Club, San Francisco, USA// International Theater, Frankfurt, Germany// Brotfabrik, Bonn, Germany// Laboratorium, Stuttgart,  Germany// Jazz Ascona Festival Ascona,Switzerland// TonArt Festival Altdorf, Switzerland //
Viel Jazz Festival Zug, Switzerland// House of Switzerland Athen, Greece// Swiss National Exposition, Neuchâtel 2002,Switzerland// Villa Leon, Nürnberg, Germany// TonHalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland// Centro Svizzero, Milano, Italy// Blue Note, La Laguna, Spain// Festival Musica du Mundo, Lima, Perù //

He has aroused great interest of the Swiss television (SRG/SSR idée  suisse)
and other Swiss media. Within the last few years Sandro Schneebeli has given
many interviews, performances and has been featured in a  documentary on
television:
Documentary in "Eclettica", TSI, 2002//
"Dietro Le Quinte", TSI, 2004//
Telebärn, Bern, 2004//
"Talk" Telebielingue, 2004//
"Café Fédérale", TSI, 1998//
"Compagnia bella", TSI, 2005//
Confederation Day 1. August, SF1,TSR1,TSI1, 2005//
"Estival Jazz Lugano" RSI, 2008//
"Automobilrevue" 2008//
"Il Quotidiano" RSI 1, 2009//
"Talk" Telebielingue, 2010//