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Schoenberg, Adam

ORCHESTRAL

Losing Earth (2019) 23'
3.3.3.2.cbsn - 4.3.2.btrb.1 - timp.6perc - pf.hp.e-bass - str

Orchard in fog (2017) 22'
2222.2220.timp + 2perc.hp.pno.vln solo.strings

Go 
(2016) 7'
2222-2220-timp-2perc-strings

Scatter 
(2016) 18'
2222-2220-timp-2 perc-piano-solo flute-solo cello- solo bass-strings

Stars 
(2016) 17'
3333-4331-timp-3 perc-harp-strings

Canto 
(2014) 9'
2222-2220-1 perc-pno-strings


Picture Studies
 (2013) 26’
3333 – 4331 – hp – pno/cel – timp – 3perc - strings

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



CHAMBER MUSIC



Apollo (2019) 18'
(for trumpet and organ)

Go (2014) 7'
(for string quartet)

Winter Music
 (2012) 6'
(woodwind quintet)

Luna y Mar (2012) 10'
(piano trio)

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)

Separated by Space (2001, 2003, 2005) 16'
tpt.pf



BAND


Prepare for Takeoff
 (2008) 5'




VOCAL MUSIC

Never Shall I Forget
(2019) 9'
SSAA chor -pf - BD - 1.1.1.1.



BALLET

Bounce (2013) 10'
3333-4331-timp-3perc-piano-strings

 

Recently named one of the Top 10 most performed living classical composers by orchestras in the United States, ADAM SCHOENBERG’s (born November 15, 1980) music is “invigorating” (Los Angeles Times), and full of “mystery and sensuality” (The New York Times). His works have received performances and premieres at the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Hollywood Bowl.


Commissions
Schoenberg has received commissions from several major American orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Up! and La Luna Azul), the Kansas City Symphony (American Symphony and Picture Studies), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Aspen Music Festival and School (Bounce). Other recent commissions include works for Carlos Miguel Prieto and Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Texas Performing Arts, Anne Akiko Meyers for a violin concerto with the San Diego Symphony, and the first-ever two-piano concerto for the Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation.


Collaborations
Recent and upcoming collaborations include the Phoenix Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Boise Philharmonic, Iris Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, and the Nu Deco Ensemble. Recent recordings include Schoenberg’s orchestral work by the Kansas City Symphony for Reference Recordings, an arrangement of When You Wish Upon a Star for Anne Akiko Meyers and the London Symphony Orchestra on eOne Music, and a recording of his keyboard works by pianist Nadia Shpachenko on Reference Recordings. Future recordings include his chamber music featuring the Blakemore Trio, his Symphony No. 2 “Migration” with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble.


Awards & Honors
Adam Schoenberg has been Composer-in-Residence with the Fort Worth Symphony (2015-17), Lexington Philharmonic (2013-14), Kansas City Symphony (2012-13), Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University (2012) and the Aspen Music Festival & School’s M.O.R.E Music Program (2010-13). He won several awards, including ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his orchestra work Finding Rothko, the Palmer-Dixon Prize from The Juilliard School and the Brian M. Israel Prize from the Society for New Music. Additionally, Adam Schoenberg received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts & Letters in 2006 and the MacDowell Fellowship in both 2009 and 2010.


Film composer
An accomplished and versatile film composer, Schoenberg has scored two feature-length films and several shorts. Highlights include, Graceland, co-written with his father, Steven Schoenberg, which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and received its nationwide theatrical release in the spring of 2013.


Education
A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert Beaser and John Corigliano.

He is currently a professor at Occidental College, where he runs the composition and film scoring programs. He makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Luca and Leo.

Go to Adam Schoenberg's website