News

Our First Vinyl Release (Feb. 2024)

In celebration of our 30th Anniversary, we've released Decades, a 3-LP set with extensive liner notes and selected tracks from each of our studio albums. The box set's gorgeous design is by Cheri Dorr. Read more and purchase.

Data Lords Album Awarded "2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist" In Music

The Pulitzers described Data Lords as “an enveloping musical landscape of light and shadow, rendered by the many personalities of a large jazz ensemble, reflecting the promise of a digital paradise contrasted by a concentration of power and the loss of privacy.” 

Purchase "Data Lords" Double Album

This double album is available as a gorgeous package or download, both including a treasure-trove of additional exclusive content and hi-res downloads for lovers of great sound.

"...the most daring work of Schneider's career, which sets the bar imposingly high." Nate Chinen – NPR.com

"Concert in the Garden" Honored by Library of Congress

Concert in the Garden has been selected for inclusion into the prestigious National Recording Registry. The new recordings bring the total number of titles on the registry to 550, a small part of the Library of Congress' vast recorded-sound collection of nearly 3 million items.

NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony

See each 2019 NEA Jazz Master tribute and speech via the following links: Abdullah Ibrahim, Bob Dorough, Maria Schneider, Stanley Crouch. The performers in my orchestra are inseparable from my compositions, and I thank them and share this honor with them.

Blog

See my open letters about issues facing the music community and our society at large. I hope you'll find it thought-provoking and will pass them on to others.

Events

1.31.2025

Scott Robinson featured with Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra

Maria Schneider conducts

Gusman Hall - University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

Tickets

3.1.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

Luxembourg Philharmonie - Grand Auditorium
Luxembourgh, Luxembourg

Tickets

3.2.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

The Barbican Hall
London, Great Britain

Tickets

3.4.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

TBA
Stockholm, Sweden

3.6.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

TBA
Brno, Czech Republic

3.7.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

Vienna Konzerthaus - Mozart-Saal
Vienna, Austria

Tickets

3.9.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

TBA
Budapest, Hungary

3.11.2025

Maria Schneider w/Oslo Jazz Ensemble "Data Lords"

Elbphilharmonie
Hamburg, Germany

Tickets

3.31.2025

Maria Schneider w/USC Thornton Jazz Orchestra

TBA
Los Angeles, CA

4.18.2025

Maria Schneider w/NEC Jazz Orchestra

TBA
Boston, MA

4.25.2025

Maria Schneider w/Concert Jazz Ensemble, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

TBA
Boulder, CO

7.12.2025

Maria Schneider w/Funchal Jazz Orchestra

TBA
Funchal, Portugal

11.13.2025

Maria Schneider guest conducts

TBA

Helsinki, Finland

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