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Paul Schenly

Reinberger Chair in Piano, Piano Department, was the winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize. Mr. Schenly holds a Master of Music degree from CIM, where he studied with Victor Babin. He serves as artistic director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and is the founder/director of PianoFest in the Hamptons. He has played extensively with major orchestras throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco Symphonies, The Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics. He has performed with many of the world's leading conductors, including James Levine, Erich Leinsdorf, Christoph von Dohnányi, Edo de Waart, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Shaw, and Aaron Copland. He has appeared in many summer festivals, including the Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia Festival, Blossom, and the Mostly Mozart Festival, and has toured Europe with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and appeared at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, and in acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Hall. He serves on the advisory board of the American Pianists Foundation and on the nominating committee for the Gilmore Piano Foundation. He has recorded for Sine Qua Non and RCA and was artist-in-residence at the Ravinia Festival and a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West. Born in Munich, Mr. Schenly lived in South America before coming to the U.S. at the age of five. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1971.

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