Adam Schoenberg (born November 15, 1980)[1] is an American composer. A member of the
Atlanta School of Composers, his works have been performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles in the U.S. Schoenberg was the 2010-2012 guest composer for the
Aspen Music Festival, the 2012-2013 composer-in-residence for the
Kansas City Symphony, the 2013-2014 composer-in-residence for the Lexington Philharmonic, and the 2015-2017 composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony. Schoenberg's honors include a 2009 and 2010
MacDowell Colony fellowship, the 2007
Morton Gould Young Composer Award from
ASCAP, and the 2006
Charles Ives Prize from the
American Academy of Arts & Letters.[2]
A graduate of
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts from The
Juilliard School, where he studied composition with
John Corigliano and
Robert Beaser and wrote his thesis about noted film composer
Thomas Newman. While at Juilliard, Schoenberg was awarded the Palmer-Dixon Prize (for "Most Outstanding Composition"). A resident of
Los Angeles,[3]
Schoenberg is Assistant Professor of
Composition at
Occidental College.[4] He is married to playwright and screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg.