Maria Lynn Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards.

[8] In 1988, Schneider formed her first band in collaboration with jazz trombonist John Fedchock, her husband at the time, and that group appeared at Visiones in Greenwich Village.

The orchestra performed a 30th anniversary concert in November 2024 at The Town Hall in New York City, marking 30 years since the release of their first album, Evanescence.

Aside from her jazz orchestral works, Schneider's Winter Morning Walks (2013) album featured soprano Dawn Upshaw, the Saint Paul and Australian Chamber Orchestras, bassist Jay Anderson, pianist Frank Kimbrough, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson.

Schneider has been a board member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences for the New York local chapter and has been involved in many of the NARAS advocacy initiatives, including Grammys on the Hill.

Schneider and Pirate Monitor claimed that they and other small copyright rights holders were denied access to Content ID, leaving them only the options of self-policing or ignoring infringement of their own property.

[24] Other bird-related songs on her albums include "Waxwing" on Coming About, "Bird Count" on Days of Wine and Roses - Live at the Jazz Standard, and "Arbiters of Evolution" on The Thompson Fields.