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]

Current Projects

The Past is Present cantata was performed in Brooklyn, New York. [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]