Perry Goldstein

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Perry Goldstein (* 1952 in New York City ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Life

Goldstein studied at the University of Illinois , UCLA and Columbia University , where he received his PhD in composition in 1986. His composition teachers were Herbert Brün , Chou Wen-Chung , Mario Davidovsky , Ben Johnston and Paul Zonn . As early as the 1970s, he produced and hosted a contemporary music program for WILL, a public broadcaster for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , and contributed to the New York Times , the Library of Congress , Strings Magazine and the National Public Radio , Deutschlandfunk , Speculum Musicae , the League-International Society for Contemporary Music , Music Today and others and was music commissioner for the New York State Council on the Arts . In 1992 he was the US delegate at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.

From 1987 to 1992 he taught at Wilmington College of Ohio , which awarded him a Teacher of the Year Award in the Arts and Humanities . Goldstein has taught at Stony Brook University since 1992 . There he was founding director of the College of Arts, Culture an Humanities (2003–07), Undergraduate Studies Director (2000–09) and Graduate Program Director (2009–12) and has since headed the university's music department. Since 2016 he has also been Distinguished Service Professor at the SUNY Distinguished Academy . In 1997 he received the Chancellor's and President's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York and Stony Brook University. As a composer he stood out primarily with chamber music works, among which compositions for the saxophone occupy a large space.

Works

  • Quintet for Cello and String Quartet , (for Colin Carr )
  • … Shreds and patches… for piano (for Gilbert Kalish )
  • rough places plain (for Branford Marsalis and the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet )
  • Everyday pleasures
  • Mischief (2011) for saxophone quartet
  • Angelus Novus (2011) for saxophone quartet
  • Kaleidoscope (2009) for alto saxophone, clarinet, bassoon and piano
  • Flex (2007) for saxophone quartet
  • Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet (2006)
  • Arrested Lightening: Eleven Paul Klee Impressions (2010) for clarinet, violin and piano
  • Late Night Thoughts from the VA (2008) for baritone, horn and piano
  • Should This Be Found: Six Songs on Scott's Last Expedition (2004)
  • The Abundant Air: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Band (2003)
  • Motherless Child Variations (2002) for saxophone quartet
  • (W) eeeeee! (2001) for cello and piano (for Joel Krosnick and Gilbert Kalish )
  • Against the Grain (1998) for saxophone quartet and percussion
  • Fault Lines (1998) for alto saxophone and piano (for Arno Bornkamp and Ivo Janssen )

CD recordings

  • Total Absorption (New World Records)
  • Blow! (Vanguard Classics)
  • Motherless Child Variations (New Dynamic Records)
  • Lessons of the Master (Challenge Records)
  • Noir (Crystal Records)
  • The Abundant Air: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Band (Military Academy Recordings)
  • Should This Be Found: Six Songs on Scott's Final Expedition on United States (Military Academy Recordings)

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personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Perry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City