Alon Goldstein


Alon Goldstein is an Israeli classical pianist.

Biography

Alon Goldstein has played with the Israel, London, Radio France, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras as well as the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, and Vancouver symphonies under such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leon Fleisher, Peter Oundjian, Yoel Levi and others.
He opened his 2013–2014 season at the Ravinia Festival as soloist with the Chicago Symphony under James Conlon in the Mozart Double and Triple concertos with Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher. A few months earlier, he appeared at the Ruhr Piano Festival performing three concerti in one evening. The current season will also include engagements with the Kansas City Symphony, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic, among others.
In the fall of 2013, Goldstein will release a recording of Mendelssohn Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yoav Talmi. This collaboration scored a major success on a 17-concert Latin American tour that included concerts in Teatro Colón, Palacio de Bellas Artes, and Teatro Nacional. A return tour is planned for 2015–16. Highlights of last season included also his debut with the Toronto Symphony and performances with the Tokyo Quartet on their final tour. In addition, Goldstein's was heard nationwide in performances with the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio and solo recitals, many of which included the music of Debussy in homage of the composer's 150th birthday.
Other recent highlights include two world premieres of concerti that were written for Goldstein - Lost Souls by Avner Dorman with the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern, and Ornaments by Mark Kopytman with the Jerusalem Camerata, as well as performances at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra under Jaime Laredo, and solo recitals in Beijing, Moscow, New York City, Chicago, Guatemala City, Kent, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv.
Goldstein has performed at the Gilmore, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Marlboro, Seattle, Verbier, Prussia Cove and Jerusalem music festivals. Over the past several years he has also taught and played at the Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival, New York's International Keyboard Festival and "Tel Hai” international piano master classes held in Israel.
He is currently the Jack Strandberg/Missouri Endowed Chair and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Piano at the University of Missouri - Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Awards

He is the winner of the Arianne Katcz Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, Nena Wideman Competition in the US and the Francois Shapira competition in Israel. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Salon di Virtuosi Career Grant and the America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships.