Maria Schneider

Maria Schneider is an American jazz composer and bandleader from Windom, Minnesota, who leads an 18-piece orchestra. Her large-ensemble writing crosses jazz and contemporary classical. She has won Grammys in both jazz and classical, for albums including "Concert in the Garden" (2004) and "Data Lords" (2020), and for arranging David Bowie's "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)". She was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2019.