Pascal Schumacher was born on March 12, 1979, in Luxemburg. He starts his studies as a percussionist at the classical music department of the Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg (L) and obtains the Prix Supérieur in 1999. In 1996 he is accepted at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg (F) (teacher: Emmanuel Séjourné) where he receives the diploma for Specialising Keyboard in 2000, with congratulations from a unanimous jury.
From 1997 on he studies with jazz vibraphone player Guy Cabay, first at the jazz department of the Conservatoire de Luxembourg, where he obtains the Prix Supérieur with distinction in 2001, later at the jazz department of the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles (B), where he obtains a bachelor degree in June 2003. In 2005 he graduates then at Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague (NL) with Frits Landesbergen (master).
He also receives a masters degree of musicology at the Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg (F) in 2002.
Pascal also followed master classes and workshops with Gary Burton, Mike Manieri, David Friedman, Stefon Harris, Franck Tortiller, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Jean Geoffroy, Scott Prebys.
In 1995, he co-founds the ensemble Interchange with saxophonist Nadine Kauffmann.
In 1998, he receives the IKB Jugend-Förderpreis.
In 1999, he is laureate of the Prix Norbert Stelmes des Jeunesses Musicales Luxembourg.
In 2001, he is co-founder of the experimental percussion group Stroke X.
From 2001 to 2003 he co-leads Greg Lamy - Pascal Schumacher Quartet.
From 1997 on, Pascal orientates himself more towards improvised music, especially jazz music, and regularly performs with different bands, such as Chroma, Kristen Cornwell Quintet, Marc Demuth Quartet, Gasz3. He is very busy in the European jazz scene, with concerts alongside a.o. Joachim Badenhorst, Jonas Burgwinkel, Pierre-Alain Goualch, Jim Grandcamp, Chris Joris, Sylvain Rifflet, Sal La Rocca, Davide Petroca, Steve Potts, Herb Robertson, Sofia Ribeiro, Brice Soniano, Oliver Strauch, Erwin Vann, Quinsin Nachoff, Florian Weber, Konrad Wiszniewski...
In 2003 he forms his own quartet: PASCAL SCHUMACHER QUARTET with Jef Neve on piano, Christophe Devisscher on bass and Teun Verbruggen on drums, replaced in 2006 by Jens Düppe.
The quartet released three albums Change Of The Moon (2003) and Personal Legend (2005) and Silbergrau (2007) for IGLOO Records (www.igloorecords.be) and toured in Australia, Canada, Vietnam, South Africa, Portugal, Greece, France, Germany, Benelux...
In august 2004, this band wins the First Prize as well as the Public Prize at the prestigious Tremplin Jazz Avignon (F).
In november 2005, he wins the belgian Django dOr Award in the category New Talent.
Since 2005, Pascal orientates himself more and more towards composition and writes for film, theatre, dance, chamber music, childrens music, bigband and percussion ensembles.
Pascal Schumacher is an appointed teacher at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg.
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