Howard Goldstein| Profile | Music

Howard Goldstein

Associate Professor of Music

Dr. Howard Goldstein is an Associate Professor of Music at Auburn University and Music Director of the Auburn University/Community Orchestra. He also teaches Music History, Music Appreciation, and String Methods, and has been Music Director for productions of the Auburn University Theatre. He is a regular guest conductor with the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra in Birmingham and the Assistant Conductor of the Columbus (GA) Symphony, and has conducted concerts with the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (Baltimore), the Alabama Youth Symphony, the Hradec Kralové Philharmonic (Czech Republic), and the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic). Most recently he was resident conductor at the University of Szeged, Hungary, where he conducted concerts with both the University and Conservatory orchestras. He also conducted the Rochester Philharmonic as part of the Eastman School of Music Summer Conducting Workshop. As a violinist he is active as a chamber musician, section player, and concertmaster for ensembles including the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Troy University Choral Festival. He recently presented a lecture-recital on Baroque trio sonatas at the 2008 Southeastern/South Central chapter meeting of the College Music Society.

Dr. Goldstein is active as a scholar in the field of American Popular Music, with a particular interest in the performance practice of musical theater in the first half of the 20th century. He was a participant in the 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Yale University, "The American Popular Ballad, 1920-1950," led by Allen Forte. Mr. Goldstein will publish an article in a forthcoming collection of essays by seminar participants. He is also the author of several articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. More recently, he has become interested in the Argentine tango and the music of Astor Piazzolla. In 2007 he lectured on Piazzolla at the Academia Nacional del Tango in Buenos Aires and studied tango performance and history there as part of a College Music Society workshop. In the field of music journalism, Dr. Goldstein has been a regular contributor of reviews, interviews, and feature articles to the BBC Music Magazine since 2006.

The Caroline Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Auburn University has just appointed Dr. Goldstein as the Breeden Eminent Scholar in the Humanities for Spring 2009. The award will be used to fund and structure a month long residency by the Tasman String Quartet of New Zealand, who will offer concerts, master classes, and workshops both at Auburn University and throughout the state of Alabama.

A native of Los Angeles, Dr. Goldstein received his early musical education there, eventually receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in performance from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied violin with Alexander Treger and conducting with Samuel Krachmalnick. At UCLA he won the Julia Lotze Prize in violin two years in a row. After studies in historical musicology at Columbia University, where he served as Assistant Conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra, he studied conducting at the Peabody Conservatory with Frederik Prausnitz, served as his assistant as well as Assistant Conductor of the Peabody Opera Workshop, and received Master's and Doctoral degrees in Orchestral Conducting. Dr. Goldstein also studied conducting with Hans Beer at the University of Southern California, Milan Horvat at the Salzburg Mozarteum Sommerakademie, Harold Farberman at the Conductor's Institute, and Neil Varon at the Eastman School of Music. Finally, Dr. Goldstein realized a long-term obsession a few years ago when he was a two night champion on the television game show, Jeopardy!

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