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ADAM SCHOENBERG Composer Note: Choreographer Jennifer Hardy received Green Street Studios Emerging Artist Grant. She is currently working on a new piece using original music composed by Adam Schoenberg and recorded by The IRIS Orchestra. Please read below to learn more about this wonderful collaboration.
Schoenberg recently 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 in 2005 from Juilliard and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2002. Recently completed commissions include pieces for the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, Sybarite Chamber Players, and harpist Gretchen Van Hoesen of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Schoenberg is the 2010 guest composer for Aspen Music Festival and School’s M.O.R.E Music program, and a 2009 MacDowell Fellow. He was the First Prize winner at the 2008 International Brass Chamber Music Festival for best Brass Quintet, resulting in the publication of his quintet by Brass Chamber Music. In 2007, he was awarded ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Juilliard’s Palmer-Dixon Prize for Most Outstanding Composition, and a Meet the Composer Grant from the Southern Arts Federation. 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. His music has been performed throughout the United States at such venues as Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center), the Benedict Music Tent (Aspen Music Festival), the Midwest Composers' Symposium, and the Merce Cunningham Studio, as well as broadcast on WCNY in New York. Mr. Schoenberg is a member of BMI and his official website is www.adamschoenberg.com. |
