About Me
Collaborative pianist and coach Dr. Carson Rose Schneider is a
versatile performer and coach of art song, opera, musical theatre, chamber and instrumental music based in Minnesota. She has also given recitals throughout the United States and Europe.
Carson currently has a recording studio called CRStudios where she works with both singers and instrumentalists. Since moving to Minnesota in 2014, she has worked for companies around the Midwest including Lyric Opera of the North, AOT, Skylark Opera Theatre, Really Spicy Opera, Bay View Music Festival, Lakes Area Music Festival, and Fargo-Moorhead Opera. During the pandemic, she has recorded virtual recitals and tracks for companies such as Social Distance Opera. In addition to an active performing life, she has a home recording and coaching studio called CRStudios and is the pianist and choir accompanist at Union Congregational Church in Elk River, MN. During the summer, she is on the collaborative piano faculty at Bay View Music Festival's S.O.A.R.S (summer opera, art song, and recording) program. Before moving in 2014, she worked as a staff accompanist and class piano instructor at Eastern Kentucky University.
She graduated with her doctorate in collaborative piano and coaching from the University of Minnesota in 2017, where she studied with Timothy Lovelace. She has also been a young artist at Virginia Opera, Opera North, Bay View Music Festival (Mainstage), and La Musica Lirica. Additional summer study includes Source Song Festival, Tibor Varga Music Academy in Sion, Switzerland and Aspen Music Festival.
Media
CRStudios
My studio is virtual during Covid-19 and I am currently accepting new clients!
During the Covid-19 pandemic, I am making accompaniment tracks on demand and virtual coaching. Since my studio is big enough to social distance, I am still offering limited in person video recording as well. I have all the equipment you need for recording straight from my home recording studio. Click here to book me directly and see below for more information. You can also hire me for a virtual recital, collaboration recording, or other projects. Rates vary according to project. Click here to inquire about booking me for projects not listed below!
Events
Most upcoming events are postponed due to Covid-19. Please check back soon for updates!
2020
December, 2020
Really Spicy Opera: Aria Institute, Duets-Trios Edition
Premiering new works for workshop and showcase
October 30th, 2020
Like Sun Through Eyelides, with baritone Justin Spenner
A virtual program featuring all black composers
12:00pm, Hamline United Methodist Church, St Paul, MN
July 31st, 2020
Love at a Distance (with Out of the Box Opera): a night of opera and music theatre designed just for Covid-19
Theatre L'homme Dieu, 7:30pm, Alexandria, MN
July 27th-August 14th, 2020 (Canceled due to Covid-19)
Lakes Area Music Festival: rehearsal pianist for Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
Brainerd, MN
June 25th, 2020 (Canceled due to Covid-19)
Cabaret concert for Lakes Area Music Festival
June 7th-June 21st, 2020 (Canceled due to Covid-19)
Collaborative piano faculty at Bay View Music Festival
May-June, 2020 (Postponed due to Covid-19)
Lyric Opera of the North: rehearsal pianist for Tosca
April 4th, 2020 (Postponed due to Covid-19)
Pairings: Partners In Life and Song, with Christina Christensen, mezzo-soprano
Featuring songs by Gustav & Alma Mahler, and Barber & Menotti
March 2020 (Postponed due to Covid-19)
Arbeit Opera Theatre: rehearsal & pit pianist for Britten's The Rape of Lucretia
February 2020
Lyric Opera of the North: Opera Outreach Tour, Part II
Duluth, MN and surrounding area
2019
October 11th, 12th, 18th, and 19th, 2019
Skylark Opera Theatre: Most Happy Fella (music director and performance pianist)
7:30pm, The Historic Mounds Theatre, St Paul, MN
October 13th and 20th, 2019
Skylark Opera Theatre: Most Happy Fella
2:00pm, The Historic Mounds Theatre, St Paul, MN
July-August, 2019
Lakes Area Music Festival: La belle Hélène (rehearsal pianist)
August 7th, 2019
Lakes Area Music Festival: France Nouvelle
Massenet | Poeme d'avril with Zachary Wilder, tenor
7:30pm, Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd, MN
June 19th, 2019
Bay View Music Festival: Chamber Music Concert
Brahms | Clarinet Sonata in Eflat Major, Op. 120 No. 2 with Kristen Holritz, flute
7:30pm, John M Hall Auditorium, Bay View, MI
June 9th-23rd, 2019
Bay View Music Festival: Collaborative piano faculty for S.O.A.R.S. (Summer opera, art song, and recording session)
April 26th, 2019
Fargo-Moorhead Opera Gate City Bank Young Artist Concert
Opera Arias and Scenes with the Fargo-Moorhead Opera young artists
7pm, Mindekirken Norweigian Church, Minneapolis, MN
April 24th, 2019
Fargo-Moorhead Opera Gate City Bank Young Artist Concert
Opera Arias and Scenes with the Fargo-Moorhead Opera young artists
7:30pm, Rourke Art Museum, Fargo, ND
