Michelle Schumann
is a highly sought-after solo and collaborative pianist. She performs with many professional ensembles, including the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Austin Lyric Opera, Ballet Austin, and the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and also performs regularly in piano quintent, quartet, trio and duo recitals. She is pianist and founding member of the Vega Piano Quintet.

Ms. Schumann has performed concertos with orchestras in Austin, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Calgary. She is also the pianist of the Austin-based tango ensemble, "Tosca," which specializes in contemporary music written in the Nuevo Tango style.

Ms. Schumann has served on faculty at Mount Royal College Conservatory (Calgary, Alberta) and has held teaching assistantships at the University of Calgary and University of Texas at Austin, where she respectively received her bachelor and master degrees with distinction. Additionally, she has served as opera coach and repititeur at the Austin Lyric Opera, and the Austrian American Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

Michelle was awarded the Billy Joel Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she studied chamber music and solo piano with Emanuel Ax, Robert Mann, Ursula Oppens and Peter Serkin. Additionally, she was invited to perform during the Bach Cantata Seminar and the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood. Other festivals that Ms. Schumann has performed at include the Banff Festival of Music and Sound, the International Institute of Music in Munich, Germany, the Victoria International Festival, the Bartok International Congress, and the Ausitn Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Schumann completed a doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin under the esteemed tutelage of Gregory Allen and Anton Nel.