Cellist
Tess Remy-Schumacher has won first prizes in Germany’s Jugend musiziert, New York’s International Artist Competition (string division) and Rome’s Carlo-Zecchi Competition. She has been a concert soloist for several years, performing in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States, including Wigmore Hall in Londin, Jubilee Hall in Singapore, and her Carnegie Hall debut recital in New York and Bradley Hall in Chicago. She has performed at the Brisbane Biennial Festival, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the Contempofest (Australia), the Weatherfield Music Festival (USA) and the Internationaler Klaviersommer (Germany).
Ms. Remy-Schumacher has recorded for WDR, NDR, and MDR (Germany), WNYC New York, KUSC in Los Angeles, ABC National, Australia, MBS-FM Melbourne, Australia, and Swiss and Italian television. CDs include transcriptions of Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe with Marcus Reissenweber and Christoph von Sicherer, works by In Sun Cho for the Contemporary Music Society in Seoul, Korea, Villa Lobos with guitarist Stefan Grasse, the Ibert Cello Concerto, recorded in 1999 at Radio Hilversum, with solo cello works by Henze, Lutoslawski, Stahlke, Magrill, and the Rachmaninoff Sonata in g-minor with pianist Michael Staudt. She just released a CD of cello compositions by Sam Magrill and recently recorded the Trios by Brahms and Magrill with Sam Magrill and Ron Howell. She is currently undertaking a 6 CD project “Bach Plus” including the 6-Suites for solo cello.
Tess Remy-Schumacher was born in Cologne, Germany and studied with Boris Pergamenschikow, Maria Kliegel, Siegfried Palm, Jacqueline du Pre, and William Pleeth. As a Fulbright Scholar she studied with Lynn Harrell in his Piatigorsky class at the University of Southern California, and was awarded her Master of Music. As “most outstanding graduate of the year for performances, academic excellence and leadership” she received her doctorate under the supervision of Eleonore Schoenfeld.
Following her appointment at James Cook University from 1992-1998, Tess Remy-Schumacher is now a professor for cello and chamber music at the University of Central Oklahoma and the Summer Faculty at Phillips Academy Boston/Andover.
She plays a 2005 Goldfuss Cello, Regensburg.