Ann Schein

Ann Schein, artist-faculty for the Aspen Music Festival, has enjoyed an international career since her first Kapp recordings and her acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut, appearing in over fifty countries with major orchestras and conductors. She studied with Mieczyslaw Munz, Artur Rubinstein, and Myra Hess. In 1980 she presented the complete major Chopin repertoire in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the first Chopin cycle heard in New York in thirty-five years. From 1980 to 2000 she was a piano faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory; she lectures and presents master classes across the U.S., and adjudicates major music competitions. She toured extensively with soprano Jessye Norman with whom she recorded early songs of Berg for Sony Classical. Recent performances have included recitals, concertos, and chamber music across the U.S., Canada, and Iceland and collaborations with violist Cynthia Phelps and mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer. Ms. Schein has performed solo works of Ravel and Debussy and she played the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Concert Artists of Baltimore. Ivory Classics released her CD featuring solo piano works of Schumann. Among her numerous appearances annually at Aspen was a 2003 concert dedicated entirely to Elliott Carter, including the Piano Sonata and the Cello Sonata.