Fanchon Miller Scheier

BA, Adelphi University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Film, television, and theatre actress; member, Robert Lewis Acting Company and Green Gate Theatre; director and actress, regional and educational theatre; University of Virginia Artist-in-Residence program; founder, In Stages theatre company; recipient of two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; co-director of London Theatre Intersession ’88. SLC, 1985– Carsten Schmidt Music Künstlerische Abschlussprüfung “mit Auszeichnung,” Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Germany. MM, Artist Diploma, Indiana University. MMA, DMA, Yale University. Extensive performance and broadcast activities as soloist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, North America, and Japan; numerous master classes, lectures, and workshops at educational and research institutions; special interests include keyboard literature and performance practices, early keyboard instruments, the music of Ernst Krenek, relationship of performance, analysis, hermeneutics, recent gender studies, interaction of poetry and music in song repertoire; member, artistic board, Volte Foundation for Chamber Music, the Netherlands; artistic director, International Schubert Festival 1997; research fellow, Newberry Library; fellow, German National Scholarship Foundation. SLC, 1998–