Clarinetist Nick Schumacher maintains an active career as a performer and educator throughout mid-Michigan. As a graduate assistant teaching undergraduate aural skills and music theory, Nick is passionate about helping students forge powerful connections between their study of music theory and their work as performers. His pedagogy centers around musical expectation and realization, empowering students to have meaningful, theoretically informed, and accessible conversations in private lessons, with audiences during concerts, and in their own teaching.