SoundScore Composer Profile

 
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COMPOSER

Adam Schoenberg

Emmy Award-winning and GRAMMY nominated Adam Schoenberg has twice been named among the Top 10 most performed living composers by Orchestras in the United States. His works have received performances and premieres at the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Hollywood Bowl. He has received commissions from several major American orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Concerto for Orchestra to be premiered in 2023, Up! and La Luna Azul), Kansas City Symphony (American Symphony and Picture Studies), and Los Angeles Philharmonic and Aspen Music Festival and School (Bounce). He recently finished a violin concerto (Orchard in Fog) for Anne Akiko Meyers (2014 Classical Billboard Artist of the Year) and the San Diego Symphony that premiered in February 2018. His latest album with the Kansas City Symphony was nominated for two Grammys, including Picture Studiesas Best Contemporary Classical Composition. 

Schoenberg participated in the 2017 Sundance Composers Lab. He has scored two feature-length films and several shorts. Highlights include Graceland, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, his Emmy Award-winning score to the hour-long documentary That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles, and the current theme package for ABC’s Nightline. Schoenberg received his Doctor of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Luca and Leo.