Paul Schoenfield

In 1966 he appeared with Leonard Bernstein on one of the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts[2] and made his Town Hall recital debut while still in his teens.

[5] Critic Raymond Tuttle called the CD: "Some of the most life-affirming new music I've heard in a long time", while he characterized Four Parables as "wild silliness in the face of existential dread."

One of Schoenfield's most frequently performed and recorded works is his piano trio Café Music, which was commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) and inspired by Schoenfeld's turn as house pianist at Murray's steakhouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[6] It premiered under the title Divertimento at an SPCO chamber concert on January 25, 1987 with violinist Leslie Shank, cellist Joshua Koestenbaum, and Schoenfeld at the piano.

[7] Andreas Boyde gave the European premiere of Four Parables in 1998 with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and Jonathan Nott, a live performance which was issued on the Athene Records label in 1999.

Schoenfeld’s introspective nature led him on an unconventional career which shifted gradually from performance to composition, moved between the U.S. and Israel, and embraced diverse interests in mathematics and the Talmud.