Like many musicians, Robert Schoen is comfortable in more than one musical idiom. Although his university musical training is in the traditional classical model, he has composed dozens of popular songs (including music and lyrics), and has written in a wide variety of musical styles—jazz, Latin, musical theater, choral, and klezmer.
Since 2005, he has been working on a series of choral compositions, which he calls The Psalm Project, and views this undertaking as a lifetime project.
Schoen has written a number of Concert and Chamber Works, including solo and ensemble recital pieces featuring piano, clarinet, saxophone, flute, trumpet, vibraphone, trombone, string bass, and cello. His march, Infinite Courage, was performed on tour and in concert by the California State University East Bay Symphonic Band, as well as by the Stanford University Concert Band and other high school, university, and military wind bands around the country.
Robert Schoen has composed a wide variety of pieces for middle school concert band and string orchestra, and many have been premiered by Bob Athayde, music director of Stanley Middle School in Lafayette, California, as well as the Edna Brewer Middle School, Oakland, California, under the direction of Zack Pitt-Smith. Dr. Ann Porter, professor of music education at the Cincinnati Conservatory and one of Schoen's mentors, commissioned him to compose The Queen of Chocolate for the Cincinnati Junior Youth Wind Ensemble.
Robert Schoen is a member of ASCAP and the Guild of Temple Musicians.
To read more, visit the About Robert Schoen page.