Albert, Donnie Ray
Capuzzi, Giuseppe Antonio
Carrettin, Zachary
CSUN Wind Ensemble
Drew, James
Estes, Steve
Ewer, Gregory
Floyd, Carlisle
Goldsmith, Kenneth
Harlow, Russell
Hogan, Moses
Jensen, John
Johnson, Hall
King, Terry
LaMotte, Adam
Lloyd, Jr., Charles
Mirecourt Trio
Morgan, Leslie
Owens, Robert
Reale, Paul
Ritacca, Jo Anne
Tarragó, Leticia
Smith, Hale
Vandervelde, Janika
Whitwell, David

KENNETH GOLDSMITH
violinist

Cinnabar Recordings:
The Mirecourt Trio Commissions

Violinist Kenneth Goldsmith plays with a beauty and style that embodies the finest musical and artistic qualities. In the fifth decade of an active career as a chamber musician, soloist, concertmaster, and teacher, Kenneth Goldsmith reflects the musical ideals and sensibilites of his mentors, and the experience of performing with many of the world’s finest artists. Mischa Mischakoff, William Kroll, Pablo Casals, and Nathan Milstein were major influences in his musical training as a young man; he studied Baroque and Classic style with Leonard Ratner and George Houle at Stanford University, and 20th century techniques with Carlos Chavez, Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Theodor Antoniou, and Claus Adam.

In 1962, Mr. Goldsmith won the Young Concert Artists Competition in New York City, and he received a special award at the Kennedy-Rockefeller International Violin Competition in Washington, D. C., in 1980. With the Mirecourt Trio, he was a finalist in the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Competition in New York, in 1976. His orchestral career began in 1958, when he was the youngest member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Paray. He has been Concertmaster of several American symphony orchestras, and during the ‘60's and 70's, he performed with virtually every major conductor and soloist of that time.

Mr. Goldsmith is the violinist of the Mirecourt Trio, an ensemble that enjoys international acclaim through tours of the United States, Europe, and China, prize-winning recordings, and television and radio broadcasts. In 1994, he became a founding member of CONTEXT, a chamber group specializing in stylistic performances with appropriate instruments, both original and modern. He was a founding member of the Green Lake Festival of Music in Wisconsin, and he is currently a regular performer at the Cascade Head Festival of Music in Oregon. Mr. Goldsmith has been violinist in numerous string quartets and chamber ensembles including Da Camera Society of Houston, the Fromm Foundation Quartet, the American Arts Quartet, the Camerata Quartet, the Stanford Chamber Players, the Claremont Festival Quartet, the Nashville String Quartet, and the Lyric Art Quartet.

Mr. Goldsmith’s teaching career began in 1964, as a founding faculty member of the new Blair Academy of Music (now the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt) in Nashville, where he was also concertmaster of the Nashville Symphony and first violinist of the Nashville String Quartet. Mr. Goldsmith has taught violin, chamber music, music history, and performance practice, on the faculties of Stanford University, California State University at Fullerton, the University of California at Irvine, Pomona College, Grinnell College, the University of Iowa, the University of Houston, and currently at Rice University where he is Full Professor at the Shepherd School of Music. A master teacher, Mr. Goldsmith has former students in major orchestras (Chicago, Boston, and Houston Symphony Orchestras; San Francisco Ballet, Houston Grand Opera and Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera), string quartets (Julliard, Enso, T’ang, Basmati), in period music ensembles in the United States and Europe, and on the faculties of colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Mr. Goldsmith’s extensive discography includes recordings on ABC, Genesis, CRI, Audax, Grand Prix, Innova, Cinnabar Records, TR Records, Citadel, Bay Cities, Music & Arts, Varèse Sarabande, Zephyr, and Albany. He has received a Grammy-award nomination, a Stereo Review “Record of Special Merit” award, and a “Record of the Year” citation from The Village Voice.

artist link:
www.rice.edu/music

“Brilliant Fiddling!...a violinist with a beautiful tone and lots of technique...
a distinguished performance!”

—San Francisco Examiner

“...il solo violino, Kenneth Goldsmith, Impeccabile!”

—Il Progresso

“...big, bold and larger than life...one particularly admired the throbbing sweetness of Mr. Goldsmith’s tone.”

—New York Times