SONYA SCHUMANN
 Sonya Schumann made her orchestral debut with the Williamsburg Symphonia League at thirteen, performing as the Young Soloist Competition winner. She has competed and won several competitions, including the Bartok-Kabelevsky-Prokofiev Competition, Williamsburg Symphony Concerto Competition, South Carolina Music Teachers Association Competition and Southeastern Piano Festival. In 2005, Sonya performed Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the South Carolina Philharmonic.
Sonya performs solo and chamber works internationally. She participated in the Southeastern Piano Festival, Indiana University Piano Academy, Ameropa Chamber Music Festival at Prague Conservatory, and the Burgos Music Festival in Spain. At the Southeastern Piano Festival in 2009, her solo guest performance was described as “captivating, dramatic, and heartfelt.” Ms Schumann has a bachelor in music from the University of South Carolina, where she studied under the internationally renowned duo pianists Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers. She currently studies under Logan Skelton at the University of Michigan.
     
Also nationally recognized for prose and poetry interpretation and performance, Sonya recently competed and placed at the national level in poetry. Sonya’s most recent involvement was in Piano Theatre, an interactive experience of music and words.Piano Theatre’s opening 2010 tour of the US and Canada was acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Active in the artistic community, she serves as an ambassador for the Piano Arts Consortium, performing benefit concerts of solo and duo piano music across the East Coast.