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 Louis Goldstein, Professor, 1979-
Email: louieg@wfu.edu
WWW: http://www.wfu.edu/~louieg
Phone: (336) 758-5368
Office: M317 Scales Fine Arts Center
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1947, Louis Goldstein’s early piano study was with a wonderful private teacher named Margaret Schmidt. Further studies occurred at Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (BM), California Institute of the Arts (MFA), and Eastman School of Music (DMA and Performer’s Certificate), including piano study with Joseph Hungate, Rudolf Ganz, Leonid Hambro, and David Burge.
Long fascinated with music of his own time, Dr. Goldstein was co-founder and co-director of the California New Music Ensemble and an associate member of the Los Angeles Group for Contemporary Music and Newband, in New York City. In ensembles and as a soloist, he has championed cutting edge work of current composers. His faculty recitals at Wake Forest present an absorbing blend of past masters such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Debussy, 20th-century giants such as Copland and Stockhausen, and the latest innovations of today. His CD recordings of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, Dream, and One5, and Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories have garnered accolades from print and internet sources as well as fellow musicians.
Another special interest of Dr. Goldstein’s is American music. For 15 years he was on the faculty of the American Foundations Program at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He is also an active member of the Society for American Music.
Over the years, Dr. Goldstein has been active as a recitalist, accompanist, and ensemble member, and has appeared as a soloist in such venues as New England Conservatory, Yale, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Universities of Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida State, as well as in Canada, The Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Israel. At Wake Forest he teaches Piano, Piano Literature, First Year Seminars, and Introduction to Western Music, and is also Director of the Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance and the Student Showcase Recital.
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