Jeffrey Schanzer is a composer and guitarist involved in a wide variety of music, ranging from fully notated to fully improvised. He has studied composition with Morton Feldman and Anthony Davis and guitar with Oswald Rantucci. [more]
Brooklyn Performance
The Past is Present cantata will be performed on Sunday, April 14, 2024. [more]
Speach/Schanzer Duo
Jeffrey Schanzer, composer/guitarist and Bernadette Speach, composer/pianist combine the intuition and spontaneity of improvisation with the structure of formal composition [more]
Photography by Christopher Drukker
Listen
Sample works written and performed by Jeffrey Schanzer in audio and video [more]