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Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936 in
"Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources"
Liner notes to ''Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources''. New World Records, August 2007. *Garland, Peter. Composer entry in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Frog Peak Music
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Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936 in Brooklyn
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, New York) is an American
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composer
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ist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960s in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney
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and Philip Corner
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Biography
After The High School of Music & Ar ...
of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater
Judson Dance Theater was a collective of dancers, composers, and visual artists who performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York City between 1962 and 1964. The artists involved were avant garde experimentalists ...
, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles.
Since the mid-1960s he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. Numerous ensembles such as Essential Music, Relâche, Musical Elements, The New Performance Group of Cornish Institute, L'Art pour l'art, Quatuor Bozzini and Klangforum Wien have performed his music, as well as the Ensemble for New Music/Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, of which he was the director in the 1990s. His music has been performed at several New Music America festivals, Meet the Moderns/Brooklyn Philharmonic
There have been several organisations referred to as the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The most recent one was the now-defunct Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, an American orchestra based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in existence fr ...
, Pro Musica Nova Bremen, Acustica International/WDR Cologne, Invention '89 Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
The Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (Witten Days for New Chamber Music) is a music festival for contemporary chamber music, jointly organised by the town Witten in the Ruhr Area and the broadcasting station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). The con ...
, De Ijsbreker Amsterdam, Maerz Music Berlin, Cologne Triennale, Sound Culture Tokyo, Neue Horizonte and Ton Art Bern, and Musique Action Nancy.
He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Inter-Arts (USA), the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, as well as numerous commissions from Studio Akustische Kunst/WDR Cologne. In 1994 he received the Prix International award for his acoustic art/radio work "between (two) spaces".
He has written extensively on improvisation as in his book ''Sounding the Full Circle''. His critical edition of Charles Ives's "Second String Quartet", which was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society, is now being prepared for publication.
He now resides in Sheffield, Vermont, USA and Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Discography
*''The Seasons: Vermont'', Experimental Intermedia, 1982 *''Vision Soundings'', Self Released (no label), 1985 *''Sounding the New Violin'', Nonsequitur/What Next, 1991 *''Goldstein Plays Goldstein'', Dacapo, 1993 *''Live at Fire in the Valley'', Eremite Records, 1997 *''Monsun'' with Peter Niklas Wilson, True Muze, 1998 *''John Cage: Music for Violin and Percussion'' with Matthias Kaul, Wergo, 1999 *''Christian Wolff: Bread and Roses'' with Matthias Kaul, Wergo, 2003 *''The Smell of Light'' with Matthias Kaul, NurNichtNur, 2004 *''Hardscrabble Songs'', In Situ, 2004 *''A Sounding of Sources'', New World Records, 2008 *''Along the Way'' withLiu Fang
Liu Fang 1974) is a Chinese–Canadian musician who is one of the most prominent '' pipa'' players in the world. Described in the media as the "empress of pipa" (''L'actualité''), "divine mediator" (World), "the greatest ambassadress of ...
, 2010
Sources
*Garland, Pete"Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources"
Liner notes to ''Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources''. New World Records, August 2007. *Garland, Peter. Composer entry in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
External links
Frog Peak Music
to purchase scores
at Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University
from The Living Composers Project
Page on Philmultic
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldstein, Malcolm 1936 births 20th-century classical composers American emigrants to Canada American male classical composers American classical composers American performance artists Canadian classical violinists American male violinists People from Sheffield, Vermont Musicians from Brooklyn Musicians from Montreal Living people 20th-century Canadian male musicians 20th-century American composers Classical musicians from New York (state) 21st-century classical violinists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians Male classical violinists 20th-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers 21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers Canadian male violinists and fiddlers 20th-century American violinists 21st-century American violinists