Malcolm Goldstein is a composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, violin

Violin

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ist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960s in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney

James Tenney

James Tenney was an American composer and influential music theorist.-Biography:Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College and the University of Illinois...

 and Philip Corner

Philip Corner

Philip Corner is an American composer, action musician, trombone/alphornist, sometime vocalist, pianist-improvisor, theorist-educator, graphic score designer, and visual artist, collage&assembleur, calligrapher.-Biography:After The High School of Music & Art in New York City, Philip Corner...

 of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater

Judson Dance Theater

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, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles.

His "Soundings" improvisations have received international acclaim for having "reinvented violin playing", extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the instrument and revealing new dimensions of expressivity.

Since the mid-1960s he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. Numerous ensembles such as Essential Music, Relâche, Musical Elements, The New Performance Group of Cornish Institute, L'Art pour l'art, Quatuor Bozzini and Klangforum Wien have performed his music, as well as the Ensemble for New Music/Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, of which he was the director in the 1990s. His music has been performed at several New Music America festivals, Meet the Moderns/Brooklyn Philharmonic

Brooklyn Philharmonic

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, Pro Musica Nova Bremen, Acustica International/WDR Cologne, Invention '89 Berlin, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, De Ijsbreker Amsterdam, Maerz Music Berlin, Cologne Triennale, Sound Culture Tokyo, Neue Horizonte and Ton Art Bern, and Musique Action Nancy.

He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Inter-Arts (USA), the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, as well as numerous commissions from Studio Akustische Kunst/WDR Cologne. In 1994 he received the Prix International award for his acoustic art/radio work "between (two) spaces".

He has written extensively on improvisation as in his book Sounding the Full Circle. His critical edition of Charles Ives's "Second String Quartet", which was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society, is now being prepared for publication.

He now resides in Sheffield, Vermont, USA and Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Discography

• The Seasons: Vermont, Experimental Intermedia, 1982
• Sounding the New Violin, Nonsequitur/What Next, 1991
• Goldstein Plays Goldstein, Dacapo
  DACAPO
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  , 1993
• Live at Fire in the Valley, Eremite Records, 1997
• Monsun with Peter Niklas Wilson, True Muze, 1998
• John Cage: Music for Violin and Percussion with Matthias Kaul, Wergo, 1999
• Christian Wolff: Bread and Roses with Matthias Kaul, Wergo, 2003
• The Smell of Light with Matthias Kaul, NurNichtNur, 2004
• Hardscrabble Songs, In Situ, 2004
• A Sounding of Sources, New World Records, 2008
• Along the Way with Liu Fang
  Liu Fang
  Liu Fang is one of the most prominent pipa players in the world. Born in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, she began playing the pipa at the age of 6. Her first solo public performance was at the age of 9. In 1986, at age 11, she played for Queen Elizabeth II...
  
  , 2010

Sources

• Garland, Peter "Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources". Liner notes to Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources. New World Records.
• Garland, Peter. Composer entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

External links

• Malcolm Goldstein page from The Living Composers Project
• Frog Peak Music to purchase scores
• Sounding the Full Circle book
• Page on Philmultic