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Steven Schoenberg

Steven Schoenberg is an Emmy-Award winning producer and Emmy-Nominated composer/pianist whose talents cross into musical theater, classical compositions, film scoring, children’s music, and solo improvisational piano performances. His acclaimed recordings, Pianoworks and Three Days in May, are now available on CD. After a finger injury stopped his piano improvisational concerts in the early 1990’s, Schoenberg is back with Steven Schoenberg Live, An Improvisational Journey, What's Going On?, and Concerts: 1990 - 2012. He regularly performs improvisational piano concerts and has appeared at concert halls throughout the United States. His recent film scores include the documentaries Monica and David, for HBO to air in 2010, A Class Apart, for the PBS series American Experience; An Act of Conscience, for Showtime; and Farmingville, which opened the 2005 PBS series POV. Farmingville took home the Special Jury Award from the Sundance Film Festival. Schoenberg has scored numerous Emmy Award-winning films for other PBS series including NOVA and Smithsonian World. For children’s television, he has composed songs for Sesame Street and scored films for ZOOM and the Children’s Television Workshop. He was executive producer and composer for Kid Quest, which garnered two New England Emmy Awards in 2008. Other children’s projects include composing music for the award-winning book and CD My Bodyworks, written by his wife Jane Schoenberg.


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Album Review

Steven Schoenberg: Christmas Reimagined

Read "Christmas Reimagined" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Categorization is an anti-entropic effort to describe similar, but not equal, things for comparative reasons. So was my thinking when I began my review of pianist Steven Schoenberg's recording Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey (Quabbin Records, 2009) with: “Like the face of Helen launching a thousand ships, for better or worse, Keith Jarrett's 1975 Koln Concert (ECM) inspired a like number of improvisational piano recitals (half of which were ultimately Jarrett's own) and the entire genre ...

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Steven Schoenberg: Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey

Read "Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Like the face of Helen launching a thousand ships, for better or worse, Keith Jarrett's 1975 Koln Concert (ECM) inspired a like number of improvisational piano recitals (half of which were ultimately Jarrett's own) and the entire genre of “New Age" solo piano music. This spontaneous creativity is, at best an inspiration, and at worst, a bore. It is emphasized in jazz that musicians must be accomplished on their instruments and able to fully integrate all they know ...

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Steven Schoenberg Performs Live at Harlem in the Himalayas Music Series

Steven Schoenberg Performs Live at Harlem in the Himalayas Music Series

Source: Two for the Show Media

Friday, May 7th, 2010 7:00p to 8:30pat Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NYPrice: $18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of Member $16.20Phone: (212) 620-5000

$18.00 in advance / $20.00 day ofMember Price: $16.20

This marks Steven Schoenberg's first New York concert since the release of Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey. He is a dynamic, award winning composer/pianist whose talents cross into musical theater, classical compositions, film scoring, children's music, and solo improvisational piano performances. His acclaimed recordings, ...

"Steven Schoenberg’s kaleidoscopic piano speaks with a uniquely American voice. His flowing compositions, laced with stride, folk, modern jazz, and impressionistic styles, burst open into full-scale musical dioramas." ~ Tom Regan, Prairie Public Radio "Schoenberg’s Three Days in May (Quabbin Records) is worth the effort. It’s an eloquent, lush, and flowing series of improvisations that are spliced together to form sequential states of mind. He claims that the performances are completely spontaneous, and if that’s so, they are within strict melodic and rhythmic frameworks." ~DownBeat Magazine "Schoenberg performs spontaneously improvised works and yet each one has the polish, sophistication, and technical mastery of a complex piece of music." ~ David Sokol, Music Editor, Advocate Newspapers "More than a small musical miracle occurred in Amherst College’s Buckley Recital Hall last night

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Little Drummer Boy/Joy to the World

From: Christmas Reimagined
By Steven Schoenberg

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