Winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, pianist Paul Schenly has been soloist with major United States orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and New York Philharmonic. He made two United States tours with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and toured with the same orchestra in Europe. He has appeared in many summer festivals, including repeated performances at the Hollywood Bowl, the Ravinia Festival, Blossom Music Center and the Mostly Mozart Festival. He appeared in the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, and in acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Schenly has appeared with many of the world’s leading conductors including James Levine, Eric Leinsdorf, Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Edo de Waart, Mstislav Rostopovich, Christoph Eschenbach, Loren Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zubin Mehta, Robert Shaw, and Aaron Copland.

He has been artist-in-residence at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and is currently the head of the Piano Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Mr. Schenly is the Artistic Director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and has served on the juries of several national and international competitions. Paul Schenly was born in Munich in 1948 and lived in South America before coming to America at the age of five. He holds a Masters Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Victor Babin. He has recorded for Sine Qua Non and RCA.

In 1989 he founded the summer music festival "Pianofest" in the Hamptons, New York, which he directs.