Paul Schenly

Paul Schenly
Paul Schenly (left)
Background information
Born	(1948-04-15) April 15, 1948 (age 69) Munich, Germany
Occupation(s)	Pianist

Paul Schenly (born April 15, 1948) is an American classical pianist. He is the head of the piano department at the Cleveland Institute of Music and is the founder and director of the summer music festival Pianofest in the Hamptons, New York. He also serves as the artistic director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition.

Paul Schenly was born in Munich in 1948. He lived in South America before coming to the United States at the age of five. He holds a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Victor Babin.

Schenly, the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has been a soloist with a number of major United States orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. He has appeared with many of the world's leading conductors including James Levine, Erich Leinsdorf, Christoph von Dohnányi, Edo de Waart, Mstislav Rostropovich, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zubin Mehta, Robert Shaw, and Aaron Copland.