Paul Schoenfield & Sergiu Luca

The music of composer Paul Schoenfield reflects folk -- specifically Jewish -- and popular influences. He was also a noted educator. Schoenfield was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1947. He took up the piano at age six and was writing music of his own within a year. Schoenfield studied both piano and composition during his formative years; among his teachers on the former was Rudolf Serkin, and in the latter field Robert Muczynski. He attended Converse College in South Carolina but transferred to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and earned a B.A. degree there. He went o...