Kathy Schuman

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ABOUT KATHY SCHUMAN

Kathy Schuman is the Artistic Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY, “New York’s premier summer music festival.\"(Huffington Post). Since arriving in 2016, she has broadened the range of artists and genres presented at the year-round venue, and created site-specific programs which highlight Caramoor’s unique setting. For fifteen years, she was the Artistic Administrator of Carnegie Hall and part of the Artistic Planning team which programmed its three venues in a wide variety of musical genres. During her tenure, she was deeply involved in the opening of Zankel Hall in 2003, which led to an expansion of the hall\'s presentations to include significantly more new music, early music, jazz, world and folk. She was also the primary coordinator of Carnegie\'s robust commissioning program, overseeing more than 200 commissions. Her passion for new music led her to G. Schirmer/AMP, where she was Vice President and Artistic Director, managing a roster of Pulitzer, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Emmy-winning composers. She began her career in arts management at a New York classical music management (Frank Salomon Associates), both as an artist manager and as Coordinator of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. She moved to Europe in 1994 to be the Managing Director of the European Chamber Music Association in Bremen, Germany. Following that, she lived in London, working first for the Arts Council of England as Administrator of the Contemporary Music Network touring program, and then as Associate Director of Intermusica Artist Management, where she managed artists and programmed the International Chamber Music Season at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (in addition to other concert presentations throughout London).