Religion

On the occasion of their recent Opus Klassik 2025 award for the album "Glass Two," the duo presents a special interpretation of the music piece "Religion" by Philip Glass. This composition forms the third part of Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy: Naqoyqatsi. The album "Glass Two" offers an in-depth exploration of Glass’s music, presenting works from different phases of the composer’s life and contrasting them with Pascal Schumachers's own compositions. While the musical language is minimalist, the duo’s performances reveal an astonishing richness of timbre, bringing out both the diversity of the repertoire and the depth of their interpretation.

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Pascal Schumacher

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), was selected for the Rising Stars program organized by the European Concert Hall Organization (2009 / 10) and appeared as soloist in ECHO Klassik 2017 awarded project Überbach.

He played with many of exciting musicians such Francesco Tristano, Bachar Mar-Khalifé, Jef Neve, Kenny Barron & Magic Malik, wrote music for theater and film and leaded a jazz quartet. Today he mixes emotional classical music with minimal electronic sounds, although Schumacher himself considers each classification obsolete. To him, music is a single, limitless 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. SOL captures Schumacher’s newfound passion for solitude in all its magnetism all the while remaining true to the main characteristic of his relationship with the vibraphone; intimacy. SOL has ben released via Neue Meister in June 2020.

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.

Danae Dörken

"Is the young pianist the discovery of the year?" asked the classical music magazine crescendo - and answered in the affirmative. The reviewers of the magazine concerti also consider her to be "on her way right to the top". The German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken belongs to the elite of a new generation of internationally sought-after artists and captivates audiences and fellow musicians alike with her breath¬taking technique, exceptional stage presence and musical depth.

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