Biography

Amy Goldstein has gained international renown for her remarkably versatile performances of opera, oratorio, Broadway, contemporary music, cantorial chanting, and for her critically acclaimed Naxos recordings for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music.

Of Amy’s recent off-Broadway debut in Gimpl Tam with the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, the New York Times glowed, “…it offers tunes that range from the hand-clapping to the heart tugging…and the lovely voice of Amy Goldstein in the songs ‘Fort a Shlitn Oyfn Shney’ (‘A Sled Glides Through the Snow’) and ‘Shluf Mayn Kind’ (‘Sleep My Child’).” Other theater credits include multi-accent monologues for exhibits in the National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadephia), female lead in A Sondheim Revue with Dances Patrelle at the Danny and Sylvia Kaye Playhouse, Dina in Bar Kochba with the National Yiddish Theater Folskbiene, principal soprano in The Music of Abraham Goldfaden in a tour of CUNY theaters with the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, principal singer/player in Gershon Kingsley’s Voices from the Shadow both at Merkin Concert Hall and in the world premiere recording for the Naxos record label, guest recording artist for The Actors Company Theatre (Cynthia Harris, Simon Jones, and Scott Alan Evans, Artistic Directors), and principal recording artist in Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music (Naxos Records).

Operatic and orchestral credits include Anchorage Opera, Central City Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera, Banff Opera Theater, Britten-Pears Festival, Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater, Washington Square Opera, Danny and Sylvia Kaye Playhouse, the New York Philharmonic, Czech Radio Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Anchorage Festival Orchestra, Brott Festival Orchestra, the Pro Arte Chorale, and the Chicago Youth Symphony. Recital highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Baruch College, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, The Tilles Center, the Manhattan School of Music Outreach Program, the Midreshet Ben-Gurion Salon Series, in a rarely-performed English version of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the Circadia Ensemble, and the role of Jane in the world premiere recording of Nil’s Vigeland’s Jane Eyre for the Verge Music label.

Ms. Goldstein was First Prize winner of the Grace Bumbry Vocal Assistance Award, the N.Y. regional winner of the Macallister Opera Awards in both 2001 and 1995 and First Prize winner with the Motyls Chamber Ensemble in the 2003 Artists International Competition.

Ms. Goldstein’s recordings can be purchased online through a number of different sites. She lives in New York City with her husband, pianist Jonathan Faiman and their sons Michael Simcha Faiman, and Isaac David Faiman.