The American-Jewish composer Paul Schoenfield has enjoyed an active career as a pianist. His music has been described as eclectic, drawing, as it does, on classical and folk traditions.
Music
Schoenfield’s varied compositions range from a two-act opera, The Merchant and the Pauper, based on a Hasidic story, to settings of four excerpts from Psalm 86 and a Viola Concerto that makes use of children’s songs heard in Israel, Schoenfield’s second home.