Blessed with an unusually rich lyric soprano voice, unparalleled musical instinct and a technique that harkens back to the Golden Age of Singing, soprano Amy Goldstein has been stunning the international music world both for her critically acclaimed Naxos recordings for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music as well as for her remarkably versatile performances of opera, oratorio, lieder, and new music.  With her fifth CD release on Naxos American Classics just out, Ms. Goldstein has an amazing 2005/2006 season ahead of her which includes her debut in Prague’s Dvorak Hall with the Prague Radio Symphony in Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphony with Elli Jaffe conductor, and Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra in Karlsbad, Czech Republic and maestro Milos Formacek in Karlovy Vary.  Her 2004/2005 season was no less exciting with a Carnegie Hall Debut in Mozart’s Requiem, a Weill Hall recital Debut at Carnegie Hall, her debut at the coveted Salon Series at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, and a brimming concert schedule nationwide.  This season Ms. Goldstein will also be featured in role of Jane Eyre in the world premiere recording of Nil’s Vigeland’s Chamber Opera False Love/True Love based on the novel, Jane Eyre.

Ms. Goldstein has sung with the world’s leading orchestral and operatic conductors including Gerard Schwarz, John Nelson, Elli Jaffe, Louis Salemno, Thomas Dunn, Karen Keltner, Frank Graffeo, and many others, and she has sung operatic roles with the Anchorage Opera, Central City Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera, Banff Opera Theater, the Britten-Pears Festival, Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater, Washington Square Opera and the Danny and Sylvia Kaye Playhouse.  Her orchestral credits include the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wienerkammerorchester, the Anchorage Festival Orchestra, the Brott Festival Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Youth Symphony, the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, the Pro Arte Chorale, and three seasons of oratorio with the Cantata Singers of North Carolina.  Ms. Goldstein’s recitals include performances at the Tilles Center’s Music at Hillwood Concert Series, Chamber Musicales for the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, recitals for the Manhattan School of Music Outreach Program, lieder recitals in Denver, Florida, NYC and Israel, and new song premieres for The Locrian Chamber Players and The Circadia ensemble which included a rarely-performed English version of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.

Amy is also the daughter of renowned prodigy Cantor Jacob Goldstein who was the protégé of the great Cantor Moyshe Oysher and who later became his choir leader and favorite composer.  A passionate performer of Jewish and Holocaust music, Ms. Goldstein won the 2003 Artists International Competition singing the repertoire of composers of Theresienstadt and performed these songs in Weill Recital Hall in 2003 with the MOTLYS Ensemble.   Ms. Goldstein has also sung the American Premiere of Tzvi Avni’s Se quest’un uomo, Gershon Kingsley’s Voices From the Shadow, landmark Holocaust benefits including a program dedicated to Steven Spielberg with soprano Jessye Norman (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum), in concert for the Anne Frank Society, and Holocaust memorial programs with actors Claire Bloom and Celeste Holm.