Paul Schoenfield

Paul Schoenfield ( b. 1947 in Detroit ) is an American composer and pianist of Jewish origin.

Life

Schoenfield began at the age of six years playing the piano and a year later he made his first composition. He completed his high school studies at the Carnegie - Mellon University and received his doctorate from the University of Arizona as a doctor of music.

In his music he uses different elements of style: he combines the traditional classical music with folk elements, which are particularly inspired by klezmer, to a new unit. He continues the tradition of American composers, ranging from George Gershwin, whose prominent feature has always been resorting to popular elements (of whatever kind they may be, in the specific case ). In his previous work of chamber music and solo concerts take the most space; exist alongside piano and choral works, an opera and an oratorio. Its by far the best-known work is the " Cafe Music " for violin, cello and piano, with its distinctive rhythms and their powerful melodies.

Paul Schoenfield has long been active nationally and internationally as a pianist, but now occurs only rarely publicly. Among others there with him and Sergiu Luca, a recording of the complete works for violin and piano by Béla Bartók.

Paul Schoenfield is well versed in addition to his musical activities to the areas of mathematics and in Hebrew.

He now lives in the United States and Israel.

Works (selection)

• Cafe Music for Piano Trio
• Four Music Videos for Piano Trio
• Vaudeville Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in small
• Slovak Children's Songs for Flute and Piano
• Tales of Chelm for narrator and string quartet
• High Rock Ballet for amplified violin, saxophone, bass guitar, drums, synthesizers and piano
• Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra
• Klezmer Rondos, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
• Five days in the life of a manic-depressive for piano four hands
• Taschyag for Two Pianos
• D ' vorah 's Oratory
• The Merchant and the Pauper, opera