{"id":3050,"date":"2018-06-21T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/3047\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:19:03","slug":"alon-goldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/alon-goldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Alon Goldstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/span>Alon Goldstein<\/strong> is one of the most original and sensitive pianists of his generation, admired for his musical intelligence, dynamic personality, artistic vision and innovative programming. He has played with the Philadelphia orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Toronto and Vancouver symphonies as well as the Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic , Los Angeles and Radio France Orchestra. He played under the baton of such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Rafael Fr\u00fcbeck de Burgos, Peter Oundjian, Yoel Levi, Yoav Talmi, Leon Fleisher and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This upcoming season Mr. Goldstein will be performing in cities across the world including New York (Merkin Hall, Rockefeller university and Baruch College), Vienna (Musikverein), Ravinia Festival, Washington DC (Cosmos Club), Berlin (Salon Christophori), and Beijing (Forbidden City Concert Hall), including return engagements with the Jerusalem Symphony, Filarmonica George Enescu in Bucharest, Beijing Symphony, and Mercury Period Instruments Orchestra in Houston.\u00a0\u00a0This season will also see the release of two CDs on the Naxos label: Mozart Piano Concerti Nos. 9 and 17 with the Fine Arts Quartet (a follow-up to their two critically acclaimed recordings of Nos. 20 & 21 and Nos. 23 & 24) and Scarlatti Piano Sonatas.<\/p>\n

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Last season Mr. Goldstein performed with the Kansas City, Ann Arbor, Illinois, Spokane, Bangor, Augusta, and Pensacola Symphony Orchestras, as well as a performance of Beethoven\u2019s\u00a0Emperor<\/em>\u00a0Concerto on fortepiano with Mercury Houston. He played Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety” with the Jerusalem symphony as well with the Xalapa Symphony in Mexico to celebrate the composer\u2019s centennial, and performed the New Year\u2019s concert with the Beijing symphony in China. He gave recitals and chamber music, including tours with the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio, the Tempest Trio, and the Fine Arts Quartet at the Mendelssohn International festival in Hamburg Germany, as well as in Cleveland, Washington DC, New York, Burlington, Key West, Sarasota, Melbourne, Duluth, and other cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Other recent highlights include appearances with the Indianapolis Symphony as part of a Prokofiev Festival performing the composer’s Piano concerti nos.1&4, as well as\u00a0a 17-concert Latin American tour with the Israel Chamber Orchestra including concerts at Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires, Teatro de Bellas Arts in Mexico city, Teatro Nacional in San Jose, Teatro Solis in Montevideo etc. He also played\u00a0with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, and at the prestigious Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany performing Mozart, Britten and Poulenc in one evening with Leon Fleisher, his former teacher, conducting.\u00a0\u00a0He gave the premiere of\u00a0Lost Souls<\/em>\u00a0with the Kansas City Symphony and Michael Stern written for him by the noted Israeli composer Avner Dorman and debuted with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A passionate advocate for music education, his recent teaching engagements have included the Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival, International Keyboard Festival and Institute in New York, Music@Menlo, The Gilmore Festival, Piano Texas, PYPA in Curtis, International Piano Festival in Gijon Spain, and “Tel Hai\u201d masterclasses in Israel.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Goldstein was recently honored with the “Society of Scholars” award given to him by his alma mater – the Johns Hopkins University. This was given in recognition of his accomplishments and contributions over the years. He serves as the Artistic Director for The Distinguished Artists Concert & Lecture Series in Santa Cruz, CA and was recently named the Artistic Director of the Mt. Angel Abbey Bach Festival in Oregon. He created the Emerald Coast Music Alliance, whose annual festival in Florida is devoted to sharing the beauty of classical music to under-served communities, free of charge.\u00a0\u00a0He graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music studying with Leon Fleisher and received scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation. Following his graduation he became a “Performer Fellow\u201d at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he initiated chamber music concerts involving staff and students, as well as an annual festival dedicated to the piano duet repertoire. He was an artist in residence at the “Theo Lieven\u201d piano academy in Como Italy.\u00a0\u00a0He currently holds the position of “Distinguished Visiting Professor\u201d at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.<\/p>\n

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