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), 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 Schumacher has played together with such exciting musicians as Maxime Delpierre, Francesco Tristano, Bachar Mar Khalifé, Jef Neve, Kenny Barron, Magic Malik, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Wolfgang Haffner and Nils Frahm. He fuses emotional classical music with minimalist electronic sounds to create something that has been labelled modern classical music - but for Schumacher himself, any classification is obsolete. For him, music is a single boundless playground.

2018 also marked a new beginning for Pascal Schumacher, who upon invitation to play at Jazz & The City Festival In Salzburg, started to develop his own solo material. The experience opened up an entirely new path for the composer culminating in his debut solo album, SOL, which he released in 2020 under Neue Meister. Two years later, in early 2022, his second solo album LUNA followed, which he has been touring all over Europe, including Philharmonie Luxembourg and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

In 2024, Pascal Schumacher began his new project GLASS I-III, centred around works by Philip Glass, arranged by Schumacher himself and supplemented by his own works. He released his solo EP GLASS I in spring 2024, followed in November 2024 by GLASS II, a duo project with pianist Danae Dörken, which the two will also perform on tour in the coming seasons. For GLASS III, the American composer Judd Greenstein is writing a vibraphone concerto especially for Pascal, which will celebrate its world premiere on 13 June 2025 together with the Philharmonie de Luxembourg.

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Pascal is a Yamaha Artist and a Professor for Jazz and Classical Percussion at the Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg. He is the Artistic Director of the innovative 'Reset' Music Festival at Abbaye Neimenster and an Ambassador for SOS Children's Villages International - Luxembourg.

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