ELIZABETH SCHUMANN
 Elizabeth Schumann performs internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. The Washington Post Magazine noted her playing as “deft, relentless, and devastatingly good—the sort of performance you experience not so much with your ears as your solar plexus.”
The first prize winner of the Bösendorfer International Piano Competition and the Pacific International Piano Competition, she also won various prizes in numerous other major competitions, including the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. As a result of receiving a prestigious Irving S. Gilmore Award, Elizabeth was a featured artist in the PBS documentary about the Gilmore.
     
Fascinated by original programming, Elizabeth is an active performer of contemporary music, having given the world premieres of works by esteemed composers such as Carl Vine, Hugues Leclair, and Mark Landson. During the 2010-2011 season, she is touring her most recent concert innovation, Piano Theater, throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. For this tour, Elizabeth devised a piano recital with interwoven narrative entertainment in order to provide audiences an accessible window into the world of classical music. Her desire for appealing, uncommon programming has lead her to collaborations with chamber musicians around the world, including the Phoenix Symphony, the Australian String Quartet, the Janaki Trio, NeoCamerata, and many others.
     
She has performed solo recitals and chamber music concerts worldwide, in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Vienna’s Bösendorfer Saal, Toronto’s Koerner Hall, 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 the “Sundays Live” radio broadcast program in Los Angeles. Her recitals have been broadcast live on public radio and television in cities around the world, including Washington D.C., New York, Sydney, Cleveland, Montréal, Dallas, and Chicago.