Pascal Schumacher

: PRESS QUOTES

"The music was ethereal and dreamy, a pastel soundscape achieving a lovely anthemic quality towards the end as the aural sky widened. Vibraphone floated like dense fog and the guitarist avoided any Bill Frisell-ian cliché. Steve Reich would have found this mesmerizing". - Ken Waxman, The New York City Jazz Record

"„Drops & Points“ ist ein wundervoll feingliedriges Ergebnis, dass sich einerseits historischer Vorbilder bewusst ist, anderseits aber auch notwendige Distanzen kultiviert – ja, kultivieren muss. Heute gilt der Spruch „sich selbst immer wieder neu erfinden“ zu müssen mehr denn je, bringt man damit nicht nur sich selbst, sondern das ganze Genre voran." - Kultur Port

: BIOGRAPHY

Pascal studied classical percussion, jazz vibraphone and musicology at music conservatories in Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Brussels and The Hague. He holds a Master’s degree in musicology from the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and another in music with a focus on jazz vibraphone from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. He has won many awards, including the Belgian Django d’Or (2005), Export Artist of the Year, Music:LX (2012), ECHO Jazz (2012), JTI Trier Jazz (2014) and was selected for the Rising Stars program organized by the European Concert Hall Organization (2009 / 10).

Pascal is a Yamaha Artist and lives in Luxembourg.

: DROPS & POINTS

Pascal Schumacher, the multi-award-winning composer, jazz vibraphonist and bandleader had his fill of Contemporary Jazz. He was looking for something new, something unexpected, unknown. He performed with Francesco Tristano and Bachar Mar-Khalifé (on the album 'Afrodiziak') and featured on Munich-based composer Arash Safaian’s album 'ÜberBach'. Having become increasingly interested in electronic music, he disbanded his quartet.