A multi-instrumentalist who plays clarinet, saxophone and flute, Halley Shoenberg has produced three CD releases, Love Goes 'Round, Someday, and Private Concert which include several of her original compositions. A native of Silver Spring, Maryland, Halley earned her Bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University and Master's in Arts Administration from Florida State University.

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As leader of her own "Halley Shoenberg Jazz Quartet" and other ensembles, most recently adding the 11-piece 1920's/30's-style"Revival Jazz Band" which has performed at Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom, her concert and festival presentations have won the hearts of jazz enthusiasts who demand master musicianship.

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Past performances include the "Halley Shoenberg Octet" in concert at Strathmore Mansion and her bands at DC area festivals such as the Bethesda, MD Fine Arts Festival, Alexandria, VA Jazz Festival and the Silver Spring Swings concert series. As the clarinet soloist in the Tom Cunningham Orchestra, Halley was regularly featured on classic swing masterpieces and evening-long Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman tributes. She has played at major venues including the Kennedy Center, National Parks, at the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival and Blues Alley. She performs with many bands from the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas and is asked to fill in visiting swing bands from other U.S. cities. She has toured the mid-west and south with Craig Gildner and the Blue Sky 5.  Her trio was featured in Worchester, MA at a live performance and broadcast for WICN Radio.

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Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buddy DeFranco, and Ken Peplowski influence her clarinet playing. Her saxophone style pays respect to Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Stan Getz. Halley is also inspired by the legendary music of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and the Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Stan Kenton big bands.

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Having intensely studied classical and jazz, she currently teaches private lessons to young clarinet and saxophone students in addition to performing. At Indiana University's School of Music Halley studied with David Baker, Dominic Spera, James Campbell, Tom Walsh, Lynn Baker, J.B. Dyas and many more outstanding musician-teachers of performance, history, and composition. After graduation, Shoenberg served as intern in the Smithsonian's jazz history department. During her arts administration graduate program at Florida State University, she performed and toured with the school's award-winning jazz ensemble and interned at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

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Based in Washington DC, her performances on saxophone in Rhapsody in Blue and the West Side Story Suite have been heard on tour in Germany with the Washington Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed traditional "Dixieland" jazz with the Potomac River Jazz Club's Federal Focus Jazz Band, which participated in Chilliwack Jazz Festival in British Columbia and at the French Quarter Jazz Festival in New Orleans. Shoenberg has performed in New York, at the Boswell Sisters Centennial in New Orleans and at the Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center.

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