About
Garrett Schumann is a composer and scholar who teaches music-oriented liberal arts courses for the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts. Garrett’s research interests include the intersection of music and technology, classical composers with marginalized identities, and heavy metal music. In 2023, Garrett published articles about the impact of artificial intelligence on musicians’ creative practice in The New York Times and Chamber Music Magazine. In 2022, Garrett's published groundbreaking scholarship on Vicente Lusitano, a sixteenth Portuguese composer of African descent, in Grove Music. And, his most recent research subject has been Julia Perry, a twentieth century African-American composer, about whom he has written in The New York Times, Chamber Music Magazine, on icareifyoulisten.com, and, to come in 2025, for the magazine Oxford American. Garrett's original music has been featured on recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the experimental chamber ensembles Latitude49 and Akropolis Reed Quintet. In 2024, Garrett received commissions to create new works for synthesizers and other electronic sounds from the Ann Arbor District Library and University of Michigan Arts Initiative.