Alexander Goldstein
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Alexander Goldstein also credited as Aleksandr Goldshteyn and Aleksandr Goldstein in films, is a Russian-American
music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic.com. He was born in Moscow
, USSR, into a family of Bolshoi Theater
Orchestra
musicians.
in Moscow. 16 years later, he completed his music education by graduating at The Gnessin Academy of Music with a Master’s Degree in Conducting
and French Horn. He started composing music in 1976 in Moscow. He composed music scores for 26 feature films, 2 silent classics, approximately 300 documentary films, animations, countless radio
and television shows, circus
and stage shows
, commercials, and sports programs in the US and abroad.
Over his career as a sport music editor and arranger, Alexander Goldstein has worked with athletes and coaches
from 20 countries and helped hundreds of National competition participants spanning 4 different continents. 38 Olympic Medals and over 110 World Medals were won using the music that he either edited or arranged.
In 1991, he moved from Moscow
to New York City
and became Executive Producer and Creative Director at WMNB and EABC in Fort Lee, NJ
.
In 1997, Alexander Goldstein formed his own Video and Audio Production Company, ABG World, and undertook projects like the music score for documentary films like Six Days, a 2001 Andrei Zagdansky
short documentary about the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Vasya
, a 2002 Andrei Zagdansky
film about the life of a Russian painter Vasily Sitnikov
, whose works are in the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Konstantin and Mouse, a 2006 film about Russian performance poet Konstantin Kuzminsky
. He also did the video editing of approximately 50 television shows and Progulki po Broadveiu (Broadway Walks) for TV Channel Kultura Russian Federation and a long-running TV Show Time Out which was hosted by Oleg Frish
and produced for New Age Media in New York City, which aired on NTV (America) from 2005 to 2010 and featured memorable exclusive interviews and performances of such American music greats as Paul Anka
, Peter Cincotti
, James Brown
, Connie Francis
, Gloria Gaynor
, Donna Summer
and Russian performers who frequent USA like Valeri Leoniev
or call it home like Yakov Smirnoff
Starting in 1999, Alexander wrote music scores and worked as video editor
on 15 films produced by AY Associates, a Maryland
video production company, for the US State Department. Among those films are Silk Road Festival
, Energy, One Year Later, Alaska, Gagarin and Gore-Bush.
In 2005, Alexander Goldstein relocated to Naples, Florida
where he continues to produce documentary films and compose music. In 2006, during the first production of Kings of the Dance
with classical ballet performances by Ethan Stiefel
and Angel Corella
of American Ballet Theater, Nikolay Tsiskaridze
of the Bolshoi Ballet
and Johan Kobborg
of the Royal Danish Ballet
– arguably the four strongest male principals dancers at that time, Alexander created a film about the dancers, which opened the performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
(CA) and the New York City’s City Center
. This production was followed by Kings of The Dance II in 2008 and We Got It Good in 2010. Both films received Videographer Awards. Alexander Goldstein directed, filmed and edited all 3 films for Ardani Artists Management.
In 2008, Alexander Goldstein directed and produced Ascension from Olympus, a documentary film about Bobrin’s Ice Theatre headed by European Champion Igor Bobrin
and Olympic Champion Natalia Bestemianova
. "Bobrin's Ice Theatre became the very first ice theatre to invite composers to create music especially for dramatic ice performances and many prominent modern Russian composers contributed their talent – Michail Chekalin, Alexander Gradsky, Alexander Rosenblat, Alexander Goldstein and others." The film was originally in the Russian language aired on RTR (Russia) and was translated into Korean
for DVD distribution.
From 2008 through 2010, Alexander directed, filmed and edited a series of films in high definition format for Naples Historical Society
. The pilot film, narrated by Peter Thomas
, has received an AVA Award in 2010 and a Telly Award in 2011.
In 2009, Alexander created the music opening for the US bureau of RT(TV)
.
In 2010, Alexander Goldstein composed a Suite for Clarinet
and String Orchestra
, Rotissimo, after film music of the immortal Italian film composer Nino Rota
. World premiere of Rotissimo is scheduled for the Fall of 2011 and will be performed in Toronto by the Canadian Sinfonietta, Paris, New York and Moscow during the 2011–12 season.
In Russia, Alexander Goldstein is also referred to for his expertise on the music of Paul Mauriat
, a renowned French orchestra leader who has an official fan club in Russia and has a following by the Nu, Pogodi!
fan club.
Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for two silent classics of world cinema:
Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for animations and approximately 300 documentaries including:
Alexander Goldstein performed music editing and music supervising for animations and documentaries including:
Alexander Goldstein directed and edited films, documentaries, television shows and animations including:
in Moscow, Alexander Goldstein was instrumental in converting live piano accompaniment of gymnastics
floor exercise to audio tape recording. Together with Lyudmila Pakhomova
, he established a music training program for coaches at GITIS Russian Academy of Theater Arts
. He has created such unforgettable ice dance music programs as La Cumparsita
for Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov, Polovtsian Dances for Natalia Bestemianova
and Andrei Bukin
, and popularized western music in the USSR during the Cold War
by using such pop songs as: Afric Simone
's Hafanana for Marina Cherkasova
and Sergei Shakhrai
, and Louis Armstrong
's rendition of What a Wonderful World
. He is also Merit Coach of Figure Skating Federation of Russia
and collaborated with such coaches as: Elena Tchaikovskaia
, Tatiana Tarasova
, Nikolai Morozov
, Robin Wagner, Igor Shpilband
and Marina Zoueva
. He has created music arrangements for 10-time Canadian National Figure Skating Champions
Shae-Lynn Bourne
and Victor Kraatz
, and Bulgarian World Figure Skating Champions
Albena Denkova
and Maxim Staviski
based on Tomaso Albinoni's
Adagio.
In Elena Tchaikovskaia's 1986 book titled "Figure Skating", she is quoted saying: (translated)
.
Russian American
Russian Americans are primarily Americans who traces their ancestry to Russia. The definition can be applied to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to settlers of 19th century Russian settlements in northwestern America which includes today's California, Alaska and...
music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic.com. He was born in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, USSR, into a family of Bolshoi Theater
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
Orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
musicians.
Biography and career
He is the son of Boris Goldstein, a French Horn player of the Bolshoi Orchestra and nephew of Lev Goldstein, a French Horn player of the Red Army Theater. At the age of 6, he began his studies at one of the most prestigious music educational centers in the world, The Gnessin School of MusicGnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
in Moscow. 16 years later, he completed his music education by graduating at The Gnessin Academy of Music with a Master’s Degree in Conducting
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
and French Horn. He started composing music in 1976 in Moscow. He composed music scores for 26 feature films, 2 silent classics, approximately 300 documentary films, animations, countless radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television shows, circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
and stage shows
Stage Show
Stage Show was a popular music variety series on American television originally hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Produced by Jackie Gleason, the CBS-TV show included the first national television appearances by Elvis Presley.The series began as a...
, commercials, and sports programs in the US and abroad.
Over his career as a sport music editor and arranger, Alexander Goldstein has worked with athletes and coaches
Coach (sport)
In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
from 20 countries and helped hundreds of National competition participants spanning 4 different continents. 38 Olympic Medals and over 110 World Medals were won using the music that he either edited or arranged.
In 1991, he moved from Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and became Executive Producer and Creative Director at WMNB and EABC in Fort Lee, NJ
Fort Lee, New Jersey
Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 35,345. Located atop the Hudson Palisades, the borough is the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge...
.
In 1997, Alexander Goldstein formed his own Video and Audio Production Company, ABG World, and undertook projects like the music score for documentary films like Six Days, a 2001 Andrei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky is an American and Russian/Ukrainian independent documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Zagdansky attended Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, graduating in 1979. He worked as a film director for Kievnauchfilm studio in Kiev from 1981 through 1988, and at film studio Thursday from...
short documentary about the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Vasya
Vasya (film)
Vasya is a 2002 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky. The film tells the story of Russian underground artist Vasily Sitnikov, who was declared insane in early 1940’s by the Soviet authorities...
, a 2002 Andrei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky is an American and Russian/Ukrainian independent documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Zagdansky attended Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, graduating in 1979. He worked as a film director for Kievnauchfilm studio in Kiev from 1981 through 1988, and at film studio Thursday from...
film about the life of a Russian painter Vasily Sitnikov
Vasily Sitnikov
Vasily Yakovlevich Sitnikov was a Russian painter. He was one of the most vivid “landmark” figures of the post-war Soviet Nonconformist Art of Russia, and a living legend in Moscow artistic milieu....
, whose works are in the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Konstantin and Mouse, a 2006 film about Russian performance poet Konstantin Kuzminsky
Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky
Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuzminsky is a Russian performance poet who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1978. Currently he lives in upstate New York. He is the publisher of "The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry". Other publications include a collection of Russian poetry “The...
. He also did the video editing of approximately 50 television shows and Progulki po Broadveiu (Broadway Walks) for TV Channel Kultura Russian Federation and a long-running TV Show Time Out which was hosted by Oleg Frish
Oleg Frish
Oleg Frish is a Russian entertainer, singer, actor, television and radio personality, journalist, music historian, and is the Owner of New Age Media. Oleg was born in Zaporozhye, USSR into a family of musicians...
and produced for New Age Media in New York City, which aired on NTV (America) from 2005 to 2010 and featured memorable exclusive interviews and performances of such American music greats as Paul Anka
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
, Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School and Columbia University.-Biography:...
, James Brown
James Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
, Connie Francis
Connie Francis
Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...
, Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...
, Donna Summer
Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
and Russian performers who frequent USA like Valeri Leoniev
Valery Leontiev
Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev is a Soviet and Russian pop singer whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996...
or call it home like Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis , better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the...
Starting in 1999, Alexander wrote music scores and worked as video editor
Video editor
A video editor is a technically inclined individual that is involved with making creative video editing decision in the post-production of film making and video production...
on 15 films produced by AY Associates, a Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
video production company, for the US State Department. Among those films are Silk Road Festival
Silk Road Project
Silk Road Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas among different cultures along the Silk Road. The...
, Energy, One Year Later, Alaska, Gagarin and Gore-Bush.
In 2005, Alexander Goldstein relocated to Naples, Florida
Naples, Florida
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...
where he continues to produce documentary films and compose music. In 2006, during the first production of Kings of the Dance
Kings of the Dance
Kings of the Dance was a four night dance extravaganza starring: *Angel Corella, American Ballet Theatre*Ethan Stiefel, American Ballet Theatre*Johan Kobborg, The Royal Ballet, London*Nikolay Tsiskaridze, The Bolshoi Ballet...
with classical ballet performances by Ethan Stiefel
Ethan Stiefel
Ethan Stiefel is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre . His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT.-Biography:...
and Angel Corella
Angel Corella
Ángel Corella is a Spanish dancer, currently the Artistic Director and principal dancer of Corella Ballet Castilla Y León as well as principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre...
of American Ballet Theater, Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Nikolay Tsiskaridze , also spelled Ziskaridze, is a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ethnically Georgian, he was born in Tbilisi on 31 December 1973. He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991...
of the Bolshoi Ballet
Bolshoi Ballet
The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies, however it only achieved worldwide acclaim by the early 20th century, when Moscow became the...
and Johan Kobborg
Johan Kobborg
Johan Kobborg is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.-Early Life:Johan Kobborg was born in Odense, Denmark into an artistic family; his mother is a former showgirl and actress and his brother is an actor...
of the Royal Danish Ballet
Royal Danish Ballet
The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance...
– arguably the four strongest male principals dancers at that time, Alexander created a film about the dancers, which opened the performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
Orange County Performing Arts Center
The Orange County Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex located in Costa Mesa, California, United States.The Center offers the world’s leading dance companies, Broadway shows, award-winning classical, jazz and cabaret artists, family entertainment, special events and year-round...
(CA) and the New York City’s City Center
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
. This production was followed by Kings of The Dance II in 2008 and We Got It Good in 2010. Both films received Videographer Awards. Alexander Goldstein directed, filmed and edited all 3 films for Ardani Artists Management.
In 2008, Alexander Goldstein directed and produced Ascension from Olympus, a documentary film about Bobrin’s Ice Theatre headed by European Champion Igor Bobrin
Igor Bobrin
Igor Anatolyevich Bobrin is a former Soviet competitive figure skater. He is the 1981 European Champion and World bronze medalist. He was the 1978, 1980-1982 Soviet National Champion and placed 6th at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Following his competitive career, he created his own ice theater...
and Olympic Champion Natalia Bestemianova
Natalia Bestemianova
Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova is a Russian ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union in her competitive career...
. "Bobrin's Ice Theatre became the very first ice theatre to invite composers to create music especially for dramatic ice performances and many prominent modern Russian composers contributed their talent – Michail Chekalin, Alexander Gradsky, Alexander Rosenblat, Alexander Goldstein and others." The film was originally in the Russian language aired on RTR (Russia) and was translated into Korean
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
for DVD distribution.
From 2008 through 2010, Alexander directed, filmed and edited a series of films in high definition format for Naples Historical Society
Palm Cottage (Naples, Florida)
The Palm Cottage is a historic home in Naples, Florida. It is located at 137 12th Avenue, South. On May 24, 1982, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.The house is owned and operated as a museum by the Naples Historical Society...
. The pilot film, narrated by Peter Thomas
Peter Thomas (television narrator)
Peter Thomas is an American announcer narrator of television programs, including shows such as Nova and more recently Forensic Files and Medical Detectives. Thomas is known for his crystal clear voice and precise diction, and his unique narrative tone of urgency, concern, and empathy...
, has received an AVA Award in 2010 and a Telly Award in 2011.
In 2009, Alexander created the music opening for the US bureau of RT(TV)
Russia Today
Russia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
.
In 2010, Alexander Goldstein composed a Suite for Clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
and String Orchestra
String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
, Rotissimo, after film music of the immortal Italian film composer Nino Rota
Nino Rota
Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
. World premiere of Rotissimo is scheduled for the Fall of 2011 and will be performed in Toronto by the Canadian Sinfonietta, Paris, New York and Moscow during the 2011–12 season.
In Russia, Alexander Goldstein is also referred to for his expertise on the music of Paul Mauriat
Paul Mauriat
Paul Mauriat was a French orchestra leader, specializing in light music. He is best known in the United States for his million selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was #1 for 5 weeks in 1968...
, a renowned French orchestra leader who has an official fan club in Russia and has a following by the Nu, Pogodi!
Nu, pogodi!
Nu, pogodi! is a Soviet/Russian animated series produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The series was created in 1969 and became a popular cartoon of the Soviet Union. Additional episodes have been produced in Russia since 2006...
fan club.
Filmography
Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for 26 feature films including:- 2009 Attrakzion (TV mini-series)
- 1992 Love in Moscow
- 1991 Nomer Luks dlya Generala s Devochkoi
- 1991 Oblako-ray
- 1990 Neotstreliannaya Muzyke
- 1990 Vybor
- 1990 Yego zhena kuritsa
- 1990 Vanka-vstanka
- 1989 Zhena kerosinshchika
- 1989 Ya v polnom poryadke
- 1988 Bomzh (Bez opredelyonnogo mesta zhitelstva)
- 1987 Staraya azbuka
- 1987 Muzykalnaya Smena
- 1986 Chelovek s akkordeonom
- 1986 Veruyu v lyubov
- 1985 Bereg
- 1982 Assol
- 1981 Ozhidaetsa Poholodania i Sneg
- 1979 Tut, Nedaleko...
Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for two silent classics of world cinema:
- 1928 Storm Over AsiaStorm Over AsiaStorm Over Asia is a 1928 Russian film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, written by Osip Brik, Ivan Novokshonov and starring Valéry Inkijinoff. It forms part of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside Mother and The End of St...
by Vsevolod PudovkinVsevolod PudovkinVsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage... - 1926 The Case of Three Million by Yakov ProtazanovYakov ProtazanovYakov Alexandrovich Protazanov was Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia....
Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for animations and approximately 300 documentaries including:
- 2007 Orange WinterOrange Winter (film)Orange Winter is a 2007 feature documentary by an independent Ukrainian-American filmmaker Andrei Zagdansky. The documentary deals with the fraudulent presidential election in Ukraine in November 2004 and ensuing days of mass protest, known as the Orange Revolution...
- 2006 Konstantin and Mouse
- 2005 Silk Road Festival
- 2005 USA - Russia Star Wars
- 2002 VasyaVasya (film)Vasya is a 2002 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky. The film tells the story of Russian underground artist Vasily Sitnikov, who was declared insane in early 1940’s by the Soviet authorities...
- 2002 Energy
- 2002 One Year Later
- 2001 Six Days
- 2001 Gagarin
- 2000 Gore - Bush
- 2000 Alaska
- 1989 Mir vam, Sholom
- 1985 Lyubov Orlova
- 1984 Alhimik
- 1983 Devochka i piraty
- 1983 Myshonok i koshka
- 1982 Volshcbinoe Lekarstvo
- 1981 Prihodi Na Katok
Alexander Goldstein performed music editing and music supervising for animations and documentaries including:
- 1996 Spheres
- 1984–1973 Nu, pogodi! Episodes 7-14Nu, pogodi!Nu, pogodi! is a Soviet/Russian animated series produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The series was created in 1969 and became a popular cartoon of the Soviet Union. Additional episodes have been produced in Russia since 2006...
(music editing) - 1979 Que Viva Mexico (music supervising)
Alexander Goldstein directed and edited films, documentaries, television shows and animations including:
- 2010 We Got It Good
- 2009 Kings of the Dance II
- 2008 Voshozhdenie s Olimpa
- 2006 Kings of the DanceKings of the DanceKings of the Dance was a four night dance extravaganza starring: *Angel Corella, American Ballet Theatre*Ethan Stiefel, American Ballet Theatre*Johan Kobborg, The Royal Ballet, London*Nikolay Tsiskaridze, The Bolshoi Ballet...
(Named by New York Magazine as top 10 cultural events of 2006) - 2005 Well Done (TV Show, 2 27-minute episodes)
- 2005 Time Out (TV Show 121 27-minute episodes)
- 2005–2002 Progulki po Broadway (TV Show 50 26-minute episodes)
- 2002 Gariki I Cheloveki (5-part documentary)
SportMusic
Leading into 1980 Summer Olympics1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
in Moscow, Alexander Goldstein was instrumental in converting live piano accompaniment of gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
floor exercise to audio tape recording. Together with Lyudmila Pakhomova
Lyudmila Pakhomova
Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With partner Alexandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion.-Biography:...
, he established a music training program for coaches at GITIS Russian Academy of Theater Arts
GITIS
The Russian University of Theatre Arts was founded on 22 September 1878 as the Shestakovsky Music School, became the Musico-Dramatic School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society in 1883, and was elevated to the status of a conservatory in 1886...
. He has created such unforgettable ice dance music programs as La Cumparsita
La Cumparsita
"La cumparsita" is a musical piece written by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, an Uruguayan musician, in 1916. It is among the most famous and recognizable tango songs of all time....
for Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov, Polovtsian Dances for Natalia Bestemianova
Natalia Bestemianova
Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova is a Russian ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union in her competitive career...
and Andrei Bukin
Andrei Bukin
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, and popularized western music in the USSR during the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
by using such pop songs as: Afric Simone
Afric Simone
Afric Simone is a singer, musician and entertainer from Mozambique. He entered the European charts with his first hit "Ramaya" in 1975, which was followed by another well-known song "Hafanana" . He was very popular during 1975 - 1980 on both sides of the iron curtain...
's Hafanana for Marina Cherkasova
Marina Cherkasova
Marina Evgenievna Cherkasova is a Russian retired pair skater. With Sergei Shakhrai, she won the 1979 European title at the age of 14. At 15, she was the 1980 Olympic silver medalist and 1980 World champion.- Career :...
and Sergei Shakhrai
Sergei Shakhrai
Sergei Semenovich Shakhrai is a Russian retired pair skater. With partner Marina Cherkasova, he is the 1980 Olympic silver medalist, 1980 World champion, and 1979 European champion.- Career :...
, and Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
's rendition of What a Wonderful World
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world . Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999...
. He is also Merit Coach of Figure Skating Federation of Russia
Figure Skating Federation of Russia
Figure Skating Federation of Russia is the national sport governing body for figure skating in Russia. It is recognized as such by Russian Olympic Committee and by the International Skating Union . No individual membership exists, the members of the FFKK are in various ice sports associations...
and collaborated with such coaches as: Elena Tchaikovskaia
Elena Tchaikovskaia
Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia is a Russian figure skating coach and choreographer. She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the Strogino District west of Moscow...
, Tatiana Tarasova
Tatiana Tarasova
Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in skating history. As of 2003, her students have won a total of 41 gold medals at the European and World...
, Nikolai Morozov
Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)
Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov is a Russian former competitive ice dancer, who works as a coach and a choreographer.- Personal life :Morozov was briefly married to his ice dancing partner Tatiana Navka. He later married French ice dancer Caroline Douarin with whom he has a daughter, Annabelle...
, Robin Wagner, Igor Shpilband
Igor Shpilband
-Personal life:Shpilband was born in Moscow. In January 1990, he and other skaters were part of a U.S. tour headlined by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when one of them, Gorsha Sur, decided to defect and Shpilband, Veronika Pershina and Elena Krikanova decided to join him. He got a coaching...
and Marina Zoueva
Marina Zoueva
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. He has created music arrangements for 10-time Canadian National Figure Skating Champions
Canadian Figure Skating Championships
The Canadian Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of Canada. It is organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body. The levels of the competition are senior and junior; in some years, the novice level has...
Shae-Lynn Bourne
Shae-Lynn Bourne
Shae-Lynn Bourne, MSC is a Canadian ice dancer. She and partner Victor Kraatz became the first North American ice dancing world champions in 2003. They competed at three Winter Olympic Games, placing 10th at the 1994 Winter Olympics, 4th at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and 4th at the 2002 Winter...
and Victor Kraatz
Victor Kraatz
Victor Kraatz, MSC is a Canadian figure skater. He and his partner, Shae-Lynn Bourne became the first North American team to win a World Championship in ice dancing in 2003.- Career :...
, and Bulgarian World Figure Skating Champions
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...
Albena Denkova
Albena Denkova
Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...
and Maxim Staviski
Maxim Staviski
Maxim Staviski is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiancée Albena Denkova, he is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...
based on Tomaso Albinoni's
Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
Adagio.
In Elena Tchaikovskaia's 1986 book titled "Figure Skating", she is quoted saying: (translated)
Alexander Goldstein created dozens, even hundreds of brilliant musical compositions. They were different in nature, but always brought a profound aesthetic pleasure to the performers, coaches and millions of viewers. I have no doubt that readers of all ages have heard at least once, songs of Alexander Goldstein performed by L. Pakhomova, A. Gorshkov, A. Zaitsev, N. Linichuk, G. Karponossov, V. Kovalev and many of our other top skaters.
Awards
Alexander has received two Videographer Awards for We Got It Good and Kings of the Dance II, an AVA Platinum Award for Naples Oral Histories: "If These Walls Could Talk", a Choice Star Award and most recently the Telly Award for Naples Oral Histories: "If These Walls Could Talk". Many films that included Alexander’s participation were awarded State Prize and USSR and International film festival awards in various countries. Alexander is also awarded Merit Coach of Figure Skating Federation of RussiaFigure Skating Federation of Russia
Figure Skating Federation of Russia is the national sport governing body for figure skating in Russia. It is recognized as such by Russian Olympic Committee and by the International Skating Union . No individual membership exists, the members of the FFKK are in various ice sports associations...
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External links
- Alexander Goldstein on IMDb
- Aleksandr Goldshteyn on IMDb
- Alexander Goldstein Filmography on Fandango
- Alexander Goldstein on KinoPoisk – all films planet
- The New York Times – Alexander Goldstein profile
- Washington Post 2/28/2010 – The music of Olympic figure skating isn't what it could be
- Naples Daily News 2/23/2010 – All Four Medal Contenders Use Music Created By Alexander Goldstein
- Naples Daily News 2/11/2010 – A Composer To The Olympic Stars
- Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower's review of Kings of the Dance. Opening film produced by Alexander Goldstein