A little something about Mr. Schneider, the guitarist in the video below: Kurt was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Laurie S. Auth, a visual artist, and Michael Schneider, a mathematician. He grew up in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he lived just a street away from Sam Tsui, whom he met while attending middle school. They both later attended Wissahickon High School.He is of German and Austrian descent on his fathers side; however, he does not speak German.Kurt has an older sister who is a classical pianist. He also has over ten cousins. He graduated as class Valedictorian from Wissahickon, and magna cum laude from Yale University in 2010 with a degree in mathematics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Kurt became a chess master at age 15, and played for Yales chess team. He currently holds a FIDE score of 2414. He played against Magnus Carlsen at the CES 2014 HRM Chess Tournament, hosted by Nordic Semiconductor in Las Vegas. He is also a self-taught musician. According to Business Insider and SocialBlade, he is believed to make a six-figure income from Youtube. This information was taken from the wikipedia article Kurt Hugo Schneider on January 26 2015 from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Hugo_Schneider.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:40:58 +0000
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