CMFW Fall Festival 2018,
“Cradling the Sound”: Festival of Music and Family

Why Music?
“Musicians in Crisis: Restoring Your Self-Worth”

Saturday, October 6th, at 1:30 pm to 3 pm
All Faiths Chapel on  4110 Guadalupe St. Bldg #639, Austin, TX 78751

How many of us know a classical musician in crisis? Crippling self-doubt? Or maybe this describes us? Or our students?

The relentless pursuit of an always-elusive perfection gets the best of us sometimes. With levels of competition higher than ever and the added pressures of society and social media, our music students are right in the boiling pot of inner turmoil.

How do we understand and handle the emotional curve of before and after a performance? How do we combat nerves? Above all, how do we break the myth of ‘only as good as our last performance’?

Lecture and Performance: Michael Schneider, pianist, Classical Music For the World’s Artist-in-Residence
Visit the artist’s webpage: http://www.pianomike.com/

As a solo artist, critics have hailed Michael Schneider as ‘a pianist with exceptional insight’ and a ‘performer with great panache’. Michael is also in demand as adjudicator, master-class clinician, lecturer, collaborator, composer, conductor, and avid musical entrepreneur throughout Texas and abroad. In the past couple of seasons, Michael has made debuts in Argentina and Italy, as well as collaborated with numerous faculty members from Universities around the US. Michael was the featured TMTA Convention Solo Artist (2008) and over the years has given multiple presentations for TMTA including: “Franz Liszt – A Legacy: A Dramatic Monologue”, and “The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Problem-Solving”. He has also been a featured guest artist, guest master class teacher, and town hall panelist at the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) State Convention on multiple occasions. Michael has been on the faculties of Youngstown State University, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Concordia University Texas, and the University of Texas at Austin.