Guest Artist

Elizabeth Schumann
Gala Recital
Sunday, Jan. 4, 7:30 p.m.
$10-$15
Katzin Concert Hall

Gold medalist and winner of the first prize David Katzin Award 2nd Bösendorfer USASU International Piano Competition (2007) and a recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award (2004)

"Deft, relentless and devastatingly good – the sort of performance you experience not so much with your ears as your solar plexus."

– Washington Post Magazine

Elizabeth Schumann performs internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. Recently winning the first prize at both the 2007 Bösendorfer International Piano Competition and the 2008 Pacific International Piano Competition, she has won several prizes and awards in other major national and international competitions, including the Montreal International Music Competition, the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Schumann was a recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Young Artists Award in 2004 and was highlighted in a PBS television documentary on the Gilmore Festival.

Schumann is an active performer of contemporary works, touring France, Belgium, Germany and Austria to perform Mark Landson’s piano quartet, Vokante Heroa. After commissioning Australian Composer Carl Vine to write his third piano sonata, she gave the world premiere on May 11, 2007, and has already given premiere performances of the piece in the U.S., Europe and Australia.

She has performed solo recitals and chamber music concerts worldwide, in such venues as the Kennedy Center, the International UNICEF benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina Victims, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Gilmore Festival, Australia’s Huntington Festival, the Musica Viva chamber music series, the Ravinia Rising Stars Series, New York City’s Rock Hotel Pianofest Series, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and Sundays Live radio broadcast program in Los Angeles. Her recitals have been broadcast live on public radio and television in New York, Sydney, Cleveland, Dallas and Chicago. In the coming months, she will be performing in the U.S., Africa and Europe.

For more info, please visit www.elizabethschumann.com.