The Swiss horn player Bruno Schneider began playing the horn at the Music Conservatory in La Chaux-de-Fonds with Robert Faller. After having passed the Professional Capacity diploma there in 1979, he went on to study at the Music Academy in Detmold with Michael Hoeltzel, where he received a Virtuosity with distinction in 1981.

After having played for 15 years as solo horn in Zürich, Münich and finally Geneva in the OSR (Suisse Romande Orchestre), he now teaches at the Music Conservatory in Geneva (http://www.cmusge.ch/) and at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg in B. (http://www.mh-freiburg.de/).

Many composers such as Norbert Moret, Jost Meyer, Eric Chasalow and Jörg Widmann have written major works for him.

Founder of the Académie de cor de La Chaux de Fonds and of the swiss horn society, Bruno Schneider has been vice president of the International Horn Society.He has been the host of the Horn workshop of the IHS 2007 in La Chaux de Fonds.

He perfoms in all the world's biggest concert halls as a soloist and as a chamber music musician with, amongst others, the wind ensemble Sabine Meyer of which he is one of the founder,Paul Meyer,Eric Le Sage, Gidon Kremer, Vadim Repin and Jeremy Menuhin. A large part of the horn repertoire has been recorded by Bruno Schneider at AVI, EMI, CLAVES, ARION, ERATO and CPO. Since 2003 Bruno Schneider plays solo horn in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra directed by Claudio Abbado.

Bruno Schneider lives in Bale since 1994.