Paul Schoenfield
Paul Schoenfield (1947-2024) was an American composer and pianist, born in Detroit. His concert music draws on popular styles, folk music and Jewish traditions within classical forms. Works include the piano trio Café Music, commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the piano concerto Four Parables and the song cycle Camp Songs. He taught composition at the University of Michigan until 2021 and died in Jerusalem.
Paula Robison, Ransom Wilson, Carol Wincenc, Solisti New York, Alasdair Neale, Brian Zeger, Douglas Webster, Robert Beaser, Paul Schoenfield, Joseph Schwantner
FlutesIn 1986, three composers and three flutists met in a novel commissioning project supported by a National Endowment Consortium Commissioning Grant. Flutists Ransom Wilson, Carol Wincenc, and Paula Robison, each a longtime supporter and performer of ne…
Works By: Hugh Aitken, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Paul Schoenfield, Gunther Schuller
Perhaps from the habit of our nineteenth-century parlor-music tradition, perhaps from the frustration of trying to get orchestral works performed, American composers seem to have remained more active in the genre of the chamber sonata than their Euro…