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Paul Reale was born in 1943 and was educated in music from the age of four, his primary teachers being Marguerite Rathbun, a student of Paderewski, and Kyrienna Siloti, daughter of Alexander Siloti, an intimate of Liszt. After a career as a piano prodigy, he attended Columbia College, majoring in English Literature and Chemistry, graduating in 1963. Private study with Chou Wen-Chung led to an invitation to enroll in the Graduate Music Program at Columbia, and ultimately in the PhD. Program at University of Pennsylvania, where Reale studied with George Rochberg and George Crumb.

Between 1969 and 2004 Reale was Professor of Music at UCLA, where he was awarded the Luckman Prize in 1995. While at UCLA he wrote compositions for every performance ensemble and instructor, acquiring valuable professional skill. His catalog consists of 11 piano sonatas, 9 concertos, including 3 piano concertos, numerous chamber works and about a dozen pieces for two pianos or piano four-hands.