Photo Credit: Janette Beckmen

Alon Goldstein is one of the most sensitive artists of his generation, admired for his musical intelligence and dynamic personality. Alon’s artistic vision and innovative programming have made him a favorite with audiences and critics alike throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel.

He made his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Israeli Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta, and in April of 2008 made a triumphant return with Maestro Herbert Blomstedt. In recent seasons, Alon has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, St. Louis, Houston, Vancouver, Kansas City and North Carolina Symphonies, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and orchestras on tour in Paris, Russia, Romania and Bulgaria.  His 2010-2011 season includes his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski playing Mendelssohn Concerto No. 1, a return to the IRIS Orchestra for a Saint Saëns Concerto No. 2 with Michael Stern and Tchaikovksy Concerto No. 1 with Jaime Laredo and the Vermont Symphony.  A highlight of the 2009-10 season was the world premiere of Lost Souls, a piano concerto written for him by rising star Israeli composer Avner Dorman, a work that Goldstein will play in April 2011 with the Santa Barbara Symphony under Nir Kabaretti. Summer 2010 included appearances at the Ravinia Festival, New York’s International Keyboard Festival and in France and Israel. Goldstein was a featured panelist at the 2010 Conference of the League of American Orchestras discussing his recent Beethoven concerto cycle with the Rockford Symphony, which expanded the traditional concert experience to a multi-media presentation contextualizing Beethoven’s life and work, and resulted in unprecedented attendance and a subsequent surge in subscriptions. A Brahms/Schumann project the following season met with equal success. In the 2008-2009 season, Alon made his Carnegie Hall debut in the Mozart Triple Concerto alongside Joseph Kalichstein and Shai Wosner.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY:

• "This young artist has style, smarts and technique…he created a stillness around himself that was so long and imposing in its defiance of expectations that your ear had to be glued to everything that came after.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
• “Goldstein, seems to have gotten his impressive chops from his Russian teacher…and his soul from the legendary Leon Fleisher…” –Providence Journal
• “Alon Goldstein, a fine young pianist who proved a worthy match for his illustrious colleagues [Tokyo String Quarter].” –The New York Times

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Sample Recital Program:

In addition to his standard recital programs, Alon has suggestions for some thematic programs:

"Crossing Paths" – Clara and Robert Schumann with Johannes Brahms
Featuring works of Brahms and Schumann written during the two and a half years (1853-1856) that the three musical figures knew each other prior to Schumann’s death in the asylum, it explores the relationship between these three creative giants through music and reading of letters.

Early Insights
Through pieces written early in life, this program explores early insights into the creative minds of the great composers Bach, Beethoven and Schumann as well as the up-and-coming Israeli Avner Dorman.