Adam Schoenberg
The music of composer Adam Schoenberg (b. November 15, 1980 Northamtpon, MA) has an ability to create “mystery and sensuality” (New York Times), and has been hailed as “stunning” (Memphis Commercial Appeal), and “open, bold, and optimistic” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Upon graduating from The Juilliard School in 2010, Schoenberg has already received two commissions each from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Up! and La Luna Azul) and Kansas City Symphony (American Symphony and a new 21st-century “Pictures at an Exhibition,” which will be premiered February 1-3, 2013). Recent commissions also include the Aspen Music Festival & School and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Lexington Philharmonic, Atlanta Chamber Players, Quintet of the Americas, The Blakemore Trio, Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, and many more.
Schoenberg is the first Composer-in-Residence for the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern’s tenure for the 2012/13 season. Additional residencies include the Atlanta School of Composers, Aspen Music Festival and School’s M.O.R.E program, a position he has held since 2010, and the 2012 BMI Composer-in-Residence for the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. He was a 2009 and 2010 MacDowell Fellow, and was the First Prize winner at the 2008 International Brass Chamber Music Festival for best Brass Quintet. In 2007, Schoenberg was awarded ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Juilliard’s Palmer-Dixon Prize for Most Outstanding Composition, and a Meet the Composer Grant. He received the 2006 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has garnered further acclaim from ASCAP and the Society for New Music (winner of the 2004 Brian M. Israel Prize).
Performance highlights include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, New World Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, IRIS Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony, Chicago Youth Symphony, New Juilliard Ensemble, and Boise Philharmonic Brass Ensemble.
The American Brass Quintet released a CD of Schoenberg’s quintet as part of their 50th Anniversary CD, and Jack Sutte (Cleveland Orchestra) released a recording of Schoenberg’s trumpet sonata, Separated by Space.
Schoenberg earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser. He also received his Master of Music degree from Juilliard and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
A committed educator, Schoenberg has taught composition and orchestration UCLA and has presented lectures and master classes at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Juilliard School, University of Kansas, University of Missouri Kansas City, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Germantown Performing Arts Centre, Blair School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival & School.
An accomplished Film composer, Schoenberg has scored two feature-length films and several shorts. His most recent score, Graceland, co-written with his father Steven Schoenberg, was premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and is due for limited in April 2013.
The 2012/13 highlights include the European premiere of La Luna Azul (Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy), 5 performances of Finding Rothko (which marks 11 orchestras to present the work since it premiered in 2007), 3 performances of American Symphony, and the inauguration of the Kansas City Symphony’s Composer Institute (a select group of high school composers will work closely with Schoenberg throughout the season, culminating in a concert of their works performed by members of the Kansas City Symphony), which Schoenberg has founded.
In 2012, Adam Schoenberg entered into a publishing agreement with Ricordi London (part of the Universal Music Publishing Classical group). Schoenberg currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, playwright and screenwriter Janine Salinas.
WORKS
ORCHESTRAL
La Luna Azul (2012) 14'
3333 - 4331 - harp - timp.- 3 perc. - strings
American Symphony (2011) 24'
3333 - 4331 - harp - piano/celesta - timp.- 4 perc. - strings
Up! (2010) 3'
3333 - 4331 - harp - piano/celesta - timp.- 4 perc. - strings
Finding Rothko (2006) 16'
2222 - 2200 - piano/celesta - 2 perc. - strings
Picture Studies (2013) 26’
3333 – 4331 – hp – pno/cel – timp – 3perc - strings
Chamber Music
Winter Music (2012) 6'
(woodwind quintet)
Luna y Mar (2012) 10'
(piano trio)
Azul (2011) 1'
(woodwind quartet)
One Acquainted with the Night (2007) 5'
(flute and piano)
Reflecting Light (2006) 8'
(brass quintet)
Fleeting (2003;2005/2008) 10'
(Bb clarinet, violin, violoncello, & piano)
Separated by Space (2003;2004) 16'
(trumpet & piano)
Solo Works
Swoosh (2009) 3'
(violin)
ayudame (2008) 7'
(viola)
Whispering Voices (2006) 6'
(harp)
ayudame (2004) 7'
(violoncello)
Band
"Prepare for Takeoff" (2008) 5'
Further information is availble at www.adamschoenberg.com.
