Loren Schoenberg is Senior Scholar of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Mr. Schoenberg is currently on the faculty at The Juilliard School, and has lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The White House, The New York Philharmonic, Stanford University, and The Aspen Institute. Mr. Schoenberg has conducted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) as well as The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The American Jazz Orchestra and the WDR Jazz Orchestra in Koln, Germany.

Mr. Schoenberg, a tenor saxophonist/pianist, has played and recorded with Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Eddie Durham, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, John Lewis, Christian McBride, Buck Clayton, and was musical director for Bobby Short from 1997-2005.  He also received two Grammy awards, for best album notes in 1994 and 2004. Mr. Schoenberg has been published widely (including the New York Times), and his book, The NPR Guide to Jazz, was released in 2003. He was hired by in 2001 to lead the effort to establish The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and served for over a decade as its Executive Director, creating many of its signal programs, and enlisted Christian McBride, Jonathan Batiste, Ken Burns, and Wynton Marsalis to the museum’s mission.

A longtime radio host on WBGO-FM and WKCR-FM, with occasional features on NPR, and a Swing Channel host on SIRIUS FM, Mr. Schoenberg is currently heard on KSDS-FM, San Diego.