Burton Goldstein
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPOSITION 2011
Composer's Biography
Burton Goldstein's concert compositions have been performed by the Arditti Quartet, the Borromeo String Quartet, The Penderecki Quartet, Xtet, the Chroma Quartet, the Gregg Smith Singers; in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Brussels, Krislund Norway, Casalmaggiore, Italy. His Aspen Quartet is available on an Albany Records CD – “California Composers”, performed by the Arditti Quartet, who also performed the work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His awards include:
Borromeo String Quartet Contest, New York.
Brandenburg Chamber Music Prize in Composition and commission.
Aaron Copland Award.
Lee Ettelson Award from Composers Inc.
Commission sponsored by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.
American Music Center Composers Assistance Grants (4).
Fellowship at the Ernest Bloch Festival in Oregon under Chinary Ung.
Two Fellowships at the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies each under both Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands.
His commercial compositions have been used in trailers for: X-Men 3: The Last Stand, The Closer, Herbie Fully Loaded, Sleeping Beauty, 21, Veggie Tales, Elizabeth, Lions for Lambs, Bridget Jones Diary. He taught composition, electronic music and music theory at: UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, El Camino College; Scripps College Claremont; and the California State University Campuses at Long Beach and Los Angeles. He served as President of the Independent Composers Association. Burton Goldstein holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the University of California at Los Angeles. His dissertation included a paper: “Why Does Stravinsky Always Sound Like Stravinsky? Serial Stravinsky and Style Analysis”. He has won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, at the Schoenberg Institute under Leonard Stein, and wrote a paper: “The Harmony of Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”.
Borromeo String Quartet Contest, New York.
Brandenburg Chamber Music Prize in Composition and commission.
Aaron Copland Award.
Lee Ettelson Award from Composers Inc.
Commission sponsored by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.
American Music Center Composers Assistance Grants (4).
Fellowship at the Ernest Bloch Festival in Oregon under Chinary Ung.
Two Fellowships at the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies each under both Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands.
His commercial compositions have been used in trailers for: X-Men 3: The Last Stand, The Closer, Herbie Fully Loaded, Sleeping Beauty, 21, Veggie Tales, Elizabeth, Lions for Lambs, Bridget Jones Diary. He taught composition, electronic music and music theory at: UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, El Camino College; Scripps College Claremont; and the California State University Campuses at Long Beach and Los Angeles. He served as President of the Independent Composers Association. Burton Goldstein holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the University of California at Los Angeles. His dissertation included a paper: “Why Does Stravinsky Always Sound Like Stravinsky? Serial Stravinsky and Style Analysis”. He has won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, at the Schoenberg Institute under Leonard Stein, and wrote a paper: “The Harmony of Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”.
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