Paul Bedal

Paul Bedal is a pianist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Bedal is a graduate of the Frost School of Music in Miami, Fl and earned his Master’s in Music Composition for the Screen from Columbia College Chicago. 

Paul has released multiple albums under his own name and has recorded and performed with a wide variety of musicians including Matt Ulery, Caroline Davis, Greg Ward, Marquis Hill, Nick Mazzarella, Charles Rumback, Quin Kirchner, Jean Caze and many more.  

On Bedal’s latest album release jazz critic Neil Tesser writes, “On Cerulean Stars, classical leanings and jazz formalism intersect with the post-freedom aesthetic of Chicago’s storied avant-garde. But don’t expect some sort of dialectical mashup; you won’t have to confront some split-personality collision of opposing forces because instead, pianist Paul Bedal and company have seamlessly blended their diverse experiences, investing his fully structured compositions with liberating energy. He provides the blueprint, and his cohorts color outside the lines.”

Bedal is a recipient of the Chicago Luminarts Fellowship Award (2014, 2015) for both improvisation and composition and a 2021 Chicago DCASE artist grant for his quartet record Cerulean Stars. 

Bedal served as an adjunct professor in jazz piano at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois from (2017-2020) as well as teaching at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. Currently Paul serves as an accompanist at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City.

Bedal has also composed music for numerous short and feature films. His most recent scoring effort for Erin Anne Macdonald’s movie Care, Paul was nominated for best composer for a short film at the Idyllwild Film Festival. His music has been featured in several film festivals including SOHO international film fest, SWSX, BIFF, Magnolia Independent Film Festival, Coney Island Film Festival, Summer in the South Film Fest and more. On his scores Paul has collaborated with artists including Adam Robl, Dion Kerr, Macie Stewart, Sam Hasting and Natalie Frakes.

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