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Dr. Tess Remy-Schumacher
tremy-schumacher@ucok.edu
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 performance, academic excellence and leadership" she received her doctorate under the supervision of Eleonore Schoenfeld.
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, the United States, including the Wigmore Hall in London, Jubilee Hall in Singapore, and her Carnegie 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).
She has recorded for WDR, NDR, and MDR (Germany), WNYC New York, K-USC 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 Rachmaninov 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 and Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. She has completed the first volume of the Suites for Cello Solo by Johann-Sebastian Bach.
Following her appointment at James Cook University from 1992-1998, she is now a professor for cello and chamber music at the University of Central Oklahoma and the founder and director of the UCO Outreach Music Program together with Dr. Chindarat Charoenwongse.
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