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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 Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Hollywood Bowl.
A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert Beaser and John Corigliano. He is currently a professor at Occidental College, where he runs the composition and film scoring programs. He makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Luca and Leo.
In 2006, Schoenberg was inspired by several of Mark Rothko’s paintings at MOMA. Rothko’s most famous works consist only of stripes of solid color across the canvas. Each of the movements of Schoenberg’s piece is inspired by one of these paintings and named after the principal color in that painting. Although played without break, the movements are divided and linked by a motif Schoenberg calls “Rothko’s Theme.” “Finding Rothko”, Schoenberg says, “doesn’t try to portray Rothko’s use of color and shape, or attempt to “set” the paintings to music. The artworks are simply a pretext, an inspiration. Yet the choice of paintings and the color connections between them formed a narrative in the composer’s imagination that is expressed clearly in the music.”
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