Maria Schneider

After collaborating with David Bowie in 2014, the multiple Grammy-winning composer found her artistic process had been recombobulated a bit — much like our ever-more digital world.

The jazz artist's latest album gets its tone not from her current life in New York, but from a childhood spent surrounded by Minnesota farmland.

In this year's Grammy Awards, the classical music was as new as the pop. A jazz composer and a soprano captured multiple prizes, while the Academy recognized a performances by an adventurous American orchestra and a compelling young vocal group. See the full list of classical winners.

Soprano Dawn Upshaw and composer Maria Schneider joined forces to create an album titled "Winter Morning Walks," which has been nominated for three Grammy awards this year.

A few weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to interview the remarkable composer and band leader Maria Schneider.Her latest work as a composer is…

Maria Schneider has emerged over the past several decades as one of our most original composers and arrangers for jazz orchestra. She studied music theory…