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.
Ms. Goldstein is winner of the 2003
Artists International Competition, First Prize winner of the Grace Bumbry Vocal
Assistance Award, and N.Y. regional winner of the Macallister Opera Awards in
both 2001 and 1995. Ms. Goldstein teaches voice in her private studio in Manhattan, and
she credits her technique and musical savvy to the people she refers to as her
“only” teachers - soprano Adele Addison, baritone Mark Oswald, and her
parents, Jack and Harriet Goldstein.