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Scumacher´s new concerto for marimba and orchestra​

Duncan Ward conducted Scumacher´s new concerto for marimba and orchestra​


(© Ilan Weiss, La Poudrerie, Brussels (B), 2014)

Biography:

Since winning the Django D’Or for Young Talent in 2005 Pascal Schumacher has been relentless in assuring his position as an outstanding artist and composer. He consistently achieves recognition in being awarded some of Jazz Music’s most prestigious titles, from the ECHO JAZZ for International Instrumentalist of the year 2012 and in 2013, the JTI Trier Award for inter-regional achievements across the euroregion of Saar-Lor-Lux.

He has been described as a “Goldsmith” in his art, a boundary-pushing musician, a resourceful improviser and an imaginative composer……..(for further reading, follow this link)

 

Windfall Concerto

The concerto  had its first performance on 15 January 2015.

Schumacher says this was a long requested, much hoped for and eagerly anticipated concerto for Vibraphone and Orchestra, commissioned by the Philharmonic Hall and featuring the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the baton of the British conductor Duncan Ward. The piece, dubbed “Windfall”, is perhaps Pascal Schumacher’s allegory of his own development, a personal homage to the wonder of life; a nod to the opportunities and encounters that have come his way, as he has intuitively carved his own space and form on the musical horizons.

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