Alexander Goldstein (born August 10, 1948), also credited as ''Aleksandr Goldshteyn'' and ''Aleksandr Goldstein'' in films, is a

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music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic.com. He was born in Moscow,

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, into a family of Bolshoi Theater Orchestra musicians.

Biography and career

He is the son of Boris Goldstein, a

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player of the Bolshoi Orchestra and nephew of Lev Goldstein, a French Horn player of the Red Army Theater. At the age of 6, he began his studies at one of the most prestigious music educational centers in the world, The Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. 16 years later, he completed his music education by graduating at The Gnessin Academy of Music with a master's degree in conducting and French horn. He started composing music in 1976 in Moscow. He composed music scores for 26 feature films, 2 silent classics, approximately 300 documentary films, animations, countless radio and television shows,

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and

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, and sports programs in the US and abroad. Over his career as a sport music editor and arranger, Alexander Goldstein has worked with athletes and coaches from 20 countries and helped hundreds of National competition participants spanning 4 different continents. Over 40 Olympic Medals and over 120 World Medals were won using the music that he either edited or arranged. In 1991, he moved from Moscow to New York City and became Executive Producer and Creative Director at WMNB and EABC in

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. In 1997, Alexander Goldstein formed his own Video and Audio Production Company, ABG World, and undertook projects like the music score for documentary films like Six Days, a 2001

Andrei Zagdansky Andrei Zagdansky (born March 9, 1956) is an transnational independent documentary filmmaker and producer originally from Ukraine. Biography Zagdansky attended Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, graduating in 1979. He worked as a film directo ...

short documentary about the aftermath of the

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, Vasya, a 2002

film about the life of a Russian painter Vasily Sitnikov, whose works are in the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Konstantin and Mouse, a 2006 film about Russian performance poet

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. He also did the video editing of approximately 50 television shows and Progulki po Broadveiu (Broadway Walks) for TV Channel Kultura Russian Federation and a long-running TV Show Time Out which was hosted by

Oleg Frish Oleg Frish is a Russian entertainer, singer, actor, television and radio personality, journalist, music historian, and is the Owner of New Age Media. Oleg was born in Zaporizhia, USSR into a family of musicians. His mother, Svetlana Frish, is a pi ...

and produced for New Age Media in New York City, which aired on NTV (America) from 2005 to 2010 and featured memorable exclusive interviews and performances of such American music greats as

Paul Anka Paul Albert Anka (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known for his signature hit songs including " Diana", " Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and " (You're) Having My Baby". Anka also ...

Peter Cincotti Peter Cincotti (born July 11, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter. He began playing piano at the age of three. While in high school, he regularly performed in clubs throughout Manhattan. In 2003, Cincotti's debut album, produced by Phil Ramon ...

James Brown James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honor ...

Connie Francis Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (born December 12, 1937), known professionally as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Called the “First Lady of Rock & Roll” ...

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and Russian performers who frequented USA like Valeri Leoniev or call it home like

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Starting in 1999, Alexander wrote original music scores and worked as

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on 15 films produced by AY Associates, a

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video production company, for the

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. Among those films are Silk Road Festival, Energy, One Year Later, Alaska, Gagarin and Gore-Bush. Alexander Goldstein Music Composer

In 2005, Alexander Goldstein relocated to

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where he continues to produce documentary films and compose music. In 2006, during the first production of Kings of the Dance with classical ballet performances by

Ethan Stiefel Ethan Stiefel (born February 13, 1973) is an American dancer, choreographer, and director. He was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) from 1997 until July 2012. He was the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet fro ...

and

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American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, it is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. Through 2019, it had an annual ei ...

, Nikolay Tsiskaridze of the

Bolshoi Ballet The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies. In the early 20th century, it came to internatio ...

and

Johan Kobborg Johan Kobborg (born 5 June 1972) is a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, director and visual artist. He is most noted as a ballet dancer, having been a principal dancer with both the Royal Danish Ballet and the Royal Ballet in London, as well ...

of the

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– arguably the four strongest male principals dancers at that time, Alexander created a film about the dancers, which opened the performances at the

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(CA) and the New York City's City Center. This production was followed by Kings of The Dance II in 2008 and We Got It Good in 2010. Both films received Videographer Awards. Alexander Goldstein directed, filmed and edited all 3 films for Ardani Artists Management. In 2008, Alexander Goldstein directed and produced Ascension from Olympus, a documentary film about Bobrin's Ice Theatre headed by European Champion

Igor Bobrin Igor Anatolyevich Bobrin (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Бобрин) (born 14 November 1953 in Leningrad) is a Russian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union. He is the 1981 European champion, the 1981 ...

and Olympic Champion

Natalia Bestemianova Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova or Bestemyanova (russian: Наталья Филимоновна Бестемьянова, born 6 January 1960) is a Soviet and Russian former competitive ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her par ...

. "Bobrin's Ice Theatre became the very first ice theatre to invite composers to create music especially for dramatic ice performances and many prominent modern Russian composers contributed their talent – Michail Chekalin, Alexander Gradsky, Alexander Rosenblat, Alexander Goldstein and others." In 2010, Alexander Goldstein composed Rotissimo, a Suite for

Clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

, Violin and

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, after film music of the immortal Italian film composer

Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

. World premiere of Rotissimo was in October 2011 in Toronto by the Canadian Sinfonietta. November 22, 2012 Rotissimo had its European Debut at

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Soloist, Julian Milkis and Violin Soloist, Päivyt Meller. On April 7, 2013, Alexander Goldstein's Trio on the Roof made its debut at the

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University of Rochester, performed by

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(clarinet),

Mikhail Kopelman Mikhail Kopelman is a Russian-American violinist. He was born in 1947 in Uzhhorod and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with professors Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich. In 1973, he was awarded 2nd prize in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competi ...

(violin) and Elizaveta Kopelman (piano). In Russia, Alexander Goldstein is known for his expertise on the music of

Paul Mauriat Paul Julien André Mauriat ( or ; 4 March 1925 – 3 November 2006) was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre. He is best known in the United States for his mill ...

, a renowned French orchestra leader who has an official fan club. During First International Paul Mauriat Festival, which concluded in March 2015, Alexander Goldstein chaired the jury.

Nu, Pogodi! ''Well, Just You Wait!'' (russian: Ну, погоди!, Nu, pogodi!, p=ˈnu pəɡɐˈdʲi) is a Soviet, later Russian, series of animated short films produced by Soyuzmultfilm. In the 2014 all-Russian poll, ''Well, Just You Wait!'' won by a ...

fan club in Russian Federation has referred to Alexander Goldstein for music mysteries, which surface now and then, caused by the Soviet-era music source misstatements. On New Year's Eve 2016, Rotissimo had its Russian premiere at the State Academic Capella of Saint Petersburg, with Sergey Dogadin, violin solo and Julian Milkis, clarinet solo. In 2015 Mr. Goldstein composed Neapolitan Symphony, a sometimes flirtatious, sometimes pensive work, inspired by the Neapolitan Dance from Tchaikovskiy's

Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoye ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, link=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failur ...

World premiere of Neapolitan Symphony was on December 1, 2016, in Bursa, Turkey by Sinfoni Orchestrati, conducted by Mikhail Kirchhoff. In 2017 Mr. Goldstein completed Introspective Trio. It premiered in 2019 in Arlington, VA by National Chamber Ensemble, Leo Shushansky, Artistic Director. Also composed in 2017 was Rhapsody on the Theme of Albinoni. It premiered in Khazan, Tatarstan by Primavera Chamber Orchestra with Rustem Abyazov, Violin, (Russia) and Mark Drobinsky, Cello (France). Also in 2017 Mr. Goldstein composed nostalgic "Romancing the Eyes," inspired by the ultra popular Ochi Chornye romance, performed by Alexandra Carlson. In 2018, Maestro Goldstein composed Amarcord Variations for Clarinet Solo. In 2020 Mr. Goldstein composed a cycle of Russian Romances to poems from "One-way Correspondence", a book of poetry by Marina Berkovich. Some of these romances premiered in Moscow in 2021, at Leo Tolstoy's Home-Museum, performed by Victoria Dmitrieva-Goldstein (no relation). In 2021 Maestro Goldstein composed Symphonic Poem To Be Or Not To Be to Hamlet's soliloquy by William Shakespeare. In 2022 Maestro Goldstein wrote another orchestration of Rotissimo for Violin, Cello, Piano and String Orchestra by special commission of Camerata of Naples. Same year, The Beauty Of Ostinato for String Orchestra and Bass Guitar was completed.

Filmography

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for 26 feature films including: * 2009 Attrakzion (TV mini-series) * 1992 Love in Moscow * 1991 Nomer Luks dlya Generala s Devochkoi * 1991 Oblako-ray * 1990 Neotstreliannaya Muzyka * 1990 Vybor * 1990 Yego zhena kuritsa * 1990 Vanka-vstanka * 1989 Zhena kerosinshchika * 1989 Ya v polnom poryadke * 1988 Bomzh (Bez opredelyonnogo mesta zhitelstva) * 1987 Staraya azbuka * 1987 Muzykalnaya Smena * 1986 Chelovek s akkordeonom * 1986 Veruyu v lyubov * 1985 Bereg * 1982 Assol * 1981 Ozhidaetsa Poholodania i Sneg * 1979 Tut, Nedaleko... Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for two silent classics of world cinema: * 1928 Storm Over Asia by

Vsevolod Pudovkin Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin ( rus, Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин, p=ˈfsʲevələt ɪlərʲɪˈonəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈdofkʲɪn; 16 February 1893 – 30 June 1953) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter ...

music score composed 1985 * 1926 The Case of Three Million by

Yakov Protazanov Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of ...

music score composed 1987 Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for animations and approximately 300 documentaries including: * 2007 Orange Winter * 2006 Konstantin and Mouse * 2005 Silk Road Festival * 2005 USA – Russia Star Wars * 2002 Vasya * 2002 Energy * 2002 One Year Later * 2001 Six Days * 2001 Gagarin * 2000 Gore – Bush * 2000 Alaska * 1989 Mir vam, Sholom * 1985 Lyubov Orlova * 1984 Alhimik * 1983 Devochka i piraty * 1983 Myshonok i koshka * 1982 Volshcbinoe Lekarstvo * 1981 Prihodi Na Katok Alexander Goldstein performed music editing and music supervising for animations and documentaries including: * 1996 Spheres * 1984–1973 Nu, pogodi! Episodes 7–14 (music editing) * 1979 Que Viva Mexico (music supervising) Alexander Goldstein directed and edited films, documentaries, television shows and animations including: * 2022 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Jack Nortman, Boxcar Education Giant * 2021 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Sheldon Starman, Down The Memory Line * 2021 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Gene Goodman, The Song Meister * 2021 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Mayor With A Heart * 2020 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Florence Hertzman, By The Pier * 2020 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Irving Berzon, Engineering The Future * 2019 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Chief Plager * 2019 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Judith and Samuel Friedland, The Power of Two * 2018 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Greensteins of Marco Island * 2018 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Elena Rosner, When Destiny Called * 2018 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Murray Hendel, Murray's Mile * 2017 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: The Labodas of Fort Myers * 2017 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Stuart Kaye, A Mench for All Reasons * 2016 We Testify: Hidden Children, produced for the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida * 2015 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Richard Segalman, The Man and His Art * 2015 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Gloria Lipman-Goldberg and Bill Lipman, Two of The 6L's * 2015 Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Helen Weinfeld * 2014 We Testify: Testimony to Truth, produced for the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida * 2013 Naples, Florida: Redefining Paradise * 2011 Naples Oral Histories: If These Walls Could Talk, produced for Naples Historical Society * 2010 We Got It Good * 2009 Kings of the Dance II * 2008 Voshozhdenie s Olimpa * 2006 Kings of the Dance (Named by New York Magazine as top 10 cultural events of 2006) * 2005 Well Done (TV Show, 2 27-minute episodes) * 2005 Time Out (TV Show 121 27-minute episodes) * 2005–2002 Progulki po Broadway (TV Show 50 26-minute episodes) * 2002 Gariki I Cheloveki (5-part documentary)

SportMusic

Leading into

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

in Moscow, Alexander Goldstein was instrumental in converting live piano accompaniment of gymnastics floor exercise to audio tape recording. Together with

Lyudmila Pakhomova Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova (russian: Людмила Алексеевна Пахомова; 31 December 1946 – 17 May 1986) was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her husband Alexandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic c ...

, he established a music training program for coaches at GITIS Russian Academy of Theater Arts. He has created such unforgettable

ice dance Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

music programs as La Cumparsita for Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov,

Polovtsian Dances The Polovtsian Dances, or Polovetsian Dances ( rus, Половецкие пляски, Polovetskie plyaski from the Russian "Polovtsy"—the name given to the Kipchaks and Cumans by the Rus' people) form an exotic scene at the end of act 2 of Alex ...

for

and

Andrei Bukin Andrei Anatolyevich Bukin (russian: Андрей Анатольевич Букин, born 10 June 1957) is a Soviet and Russian former ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union in his competitive career. With his partner Natalia Bestemianova, he ...

, and popularized western music in the

during the

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by using such pop songs as:

Afric Simone Afric Simone (born Henrique Simone, 17 July 1956) is a Mozambican vocalist, musician, performance artist, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and entertainer. He entered the European charts with his first hit " Ramaya" in 1975, which was followed by a ...

's Hafanana for

Marina Cherkasova Marina Evgenievna Cherkasova (russian: Марина Евгеньевна Черкасова; born 17 November 1964) is a Russian retired pair skater. With Sergei Shakhrai, she won the 1979 European title at the age of 14. At 15, she was the 1 ...

and

Sergei Shakhrai Sergei Semyonovich Shakhrai (russian: Серге́й Семёнович Шахрай; born 28 June 1958) is a Russian retired pair skater. With partner Marina Cherkasova, he is the 1980 Olympic silver medalist, 1980 World champion, and 1979 ...

, and

Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...

's rendition of

What a Wonderful World "What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. It topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom, but performed poor ...

. He is also Merit Coach of

Figure Skating Federation of Russia The Figure Skating Federation of Russia (russian: Федерация фигурного катания на коньках России, lit. ''Figure Skating on Skates Federation of Russia'') is the national sport governing body for figure skating ...

and collaborated with such coaches as:

Elena Tchaikovskaia Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia (, née Osipova (russian: О́сипова); born 30 December 1939) is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor for the Soviet Union. She r ...

Tatiana Tarasova Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova (; born 13 February 1947) is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in skating history. Her students h ...

, Nikolai Morozov, Robin Wagner,

Igor Shpilband Igor Yuryevich Shpilband (russian: Игорь Юрьевич Шпильбанд, born July 14, 1964) is an American ice dancing coach and former competitor for the Soviet Union. He is the 1983 World Junior champion with former partner Tatiana G ...

and Marina Zoueva. He has created music arrangements for 10-time Canadian National Figure Skating Champions

Shae-Lynn Bourne Shae-Lynn Bourne (born January 24, 1976) is a Canadian ice dancer and choreographer. In 2003, she and partner Victor Kraatz became the first North American ice dancers to win a World Championship. They competed at three Winter Olympic Games, pl ...

and

Victor Kraatz Victor Kraatz, (born April 7, 1971) is a Canadian former ice dancer. In 2003, he and his partner, Shae-Lynn Bourne, became the first North American ice dancers to win a World Championship. Personal life Born on April 7, 1971 in West Berlin, V ...

, and Bulgarian World Figure Skating Champions Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski based on

Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera comp ...

's Adagio. * 2007-2008 skating season Hip Hawk was composed by Alexander Goldstein based on

Pyotr Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

and choreographed by Nikolai Morozov for

Daisuke Takahashi is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Daisuke can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *大輔, "big, assist" *大介, "big, mediate" *大祐, "big, bless" *大助, "big, help" *大典, "big, law/rule ...

of Japan, introducing Hip hop music genre to competitive figure skating and creating a new trend. In Elena Tchaikovskaia's 1986 book titled "Figure Skating", she is quoted saying: (translated)

''Alexander Goldstein created dozens, even hundreds of brilliant musical compositions. They were different in nature, but always brought a profound aesthetic pleasure to the performers, coaches and millions of viewers. I have no doubt that readers of all ages have heard at least once, songs of Alexander Goldstein performed by L. Pakhomova, A. Gorshkov, A. Zaitsev, N. Linichuk, G. Karponossov, V. Kovalev and many of our other top skaters.''

Alexander Goldstein Category A figure skating coach in USA and Merit Coach of Russian Federation.

SportMusic.com Label CD Releases

* 2017 Waltz for Paul Mauriat * 2017 Tunes for Future Champions (digital album) * 2014 ICE WATER FLOOR, The Twisted Classics Collection * 2011 Figure Skating Classics

Awards

Alexander has received 2015 Siver TELLY Awards for WE TESTIFY: Testimony to Truth, Telly Awards for Naples Oral Histories: "If These Walls Could Talk" and for "Naples, Florida REDEFINING PARADISE," :Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Richard Segalman," Videographer Awards for "We Got It Good" and "Kings of the Dance II", an AVA Platinum Award for "Naples Oral Histories: 'If These Walls Could Talk", a Choice Star Award from Naples Daily News, and Hermes Awards for "Naples, Florida REDEFINING PARADISE" and "Because Someone Believed in Me". Many films that included Alexander's participation were awarded State Prize and USSR and International film festival awards in various countries. Alexander is also awarded Merit Coach of

References

External links

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Alexander Goldstein Filmography on Fandango

Alexander Goldstein on KinoPoisk – all films planet

The New York Times – Alexander Goldstein profile

Goldstein's role in Meryl Davis & Charlie White's win

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111004120236/http://m.naplesnews.com/news/2010/feb/22/olympic-ice-dancing-naples-Alexander-Goldstein/ Naples Daily News 2/23/2010 – All Four Medal Contenders Use Music Created By Alexander Goldstein]
Naples Daily News 2/11/2010 – A Composer To The Olympic Stars

* [http://www.rochester.edu/Eastman/calendar/?event&id=730301&from=07April2013&to=07April2013 Faculty Artist Series Eastman School of Music University of Rochester – Mikhail Kopelman, violin: Holocaust 70th Anniversary Memorial Concert play music composed by Alexander Goldstein] {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldstein, Alexander American film producers American people of Russian-Jewish descent Jewish American classical composers Jewish classical composers Russian film producers American film directors Russian film directors American film score composers Russian film score composers Russian composers Russian male composers Musicians from Moscow Living people American figure skating coaches Russian figure skating coaches 1948 births American male film score composers 21st-century American Jews