Professor of Piano at Eastern Michigan University, Joel Schoenhals has performed in North and South America, Asia, and Europe.  Fleur de Son Classics has released five of his recordings and will release two more in 2012, including a CD of all Chinese piano music.  He has been the recipient of numerous grants and twice received Eastern Michigan University’s Artistic Recognition Award.  Schoenhals has given numerous presentations and lecture-recitals on Chopin’s Etudes, Bartok’s For Children, Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert songs, Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, Chinese piano music, and other topics.  He was a featured artist at the Idaho, Oklahoma, and Oregon Music Teachers Association state conventions and presented at the MTNA national conventions in Kansas City and Austin.  He was a inivted to be a performer, judge, and teacher at the Besparmak International Piano Festival in North Cyprus, and recently gave a series concerts in China and concerto performance in Colombia, South America.  From 1998-2010, he was a faculty member of the Summer Piano Program at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.

Schoenhals earned the Master of Music and Doctoral of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music, where he was also awarded the school’s Performer's Certificate.  He holds the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.  His major teachers include Rebecca Penneys, Craig Nies, and Enid Katahn.

Schoenhals is a Steinway Artist.