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Critics have hailed Michael Schneider as “a pianist with exceptional insight” and a “performer with great panache” in performances across the states and Europe. In 2005 he was a prize winner in the 3rd International Franz Liszt Competition held in Wroclaw, Poland.

He has performed as a guest artist in the International Chopin Festival in Nohant, France at the legendary Château of George Sand where Chopin lived for part of his life. As a devotee of the music of Ignaz Jan Paderewski, Michael brings this music to a variety of venues. At the 8th Annual Paderewski Festival in California (March 2000), his performance of the grueling Paderewski Sonata prompted three standing ovations and three encores.

Michael made his Carnegie Hall debut performing in Weill Recital Hall on November 16, 2002 as a prizewinner of the 2002 Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, also winning the prize for the best performance of a work by an American contemporary composer.

He is currently in the Artist Diploma program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Mr. Paul Schenly and Dr. Daniel Shapiro and recently joined the faculty of Youngstown State University in Ohio as adjunct professor of piano.