Alexander Goldstein (born August 10, 1948), 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[1] and SportMusic.com.[2] He was born in Moscow, USSR, into a family of Bolshoi Theater Orchestra musicians.
Biography
Gnessin State Musical College
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 Music 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. Following perestroika, Alexander moved to the US and was granted citizenship.
Career
Mr. Goldstein 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. 51 Olympic Individual and Team Medals and over 125 World Medals were won using the music that he either edited or arranged.[3]
After moving to New York City, he became Executive Producer and Creative Director at WMNB and EABC in Fort Lee, NJ.
Films and music
Alexander Goldstein formed his own Video and Audio Production Company, ABG World.
In 1997 he composed original music scores for documentary films Six Days,[4]Vasya, 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,[5] a 2006 film about Russian performance poet Konstantin Kuzminsky, all directed by Andrei Zagdansky. Alexander wrote original music scores and worked as video editor on 15 films produced by AY Associates for the US State Department. Among those films are Silk Road Festival, Energy, One Year Later, Alaska, Gagarin and Gore-Bush. Alexander edited 50 television shows and Progulki po Broadveiu (Broadway Walks) for TV Channel Kultura[6] Russian Federation and 125 shows of Time Out[7] TV show hosted by Oleg Frish, which aired on NTV (America)[8] 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 frequented USA like Valeri Leoniev or call it home like Yakov Smirnoff
In 2008, Alexander Goldstein directed and produced for Telechannel Russia a documentary film Ascension from Olympus,[9] about Bobrin's Ice Theatre[10] 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 specifically for dramatic ice performances and many prominent modern Russian composers contributed their talent – Michail Chekalin, Alexander Gradsky, Alexander Rosenblat, Alexander Goldstein and others."[11]
In Russia, Alexander Goldstein is known for his expertise on the music of Paul Mauriat, a renowned French orchestra leader who has an official fan club.[12] During First International Paul Mauriat Festival, which concluded in March 2015, Alexander Goldstein chaired the jury.
Alexander used Paul Mauriat's original instrumental recording of "Alouette" as music for opening animation sequence to the popular TV program "In the world of animals" (V mire zhivotnykh) for Soviet TV channel that aired in USSR and Russia for over 30 years.
Nu, Pogodi! music supervision of episodes 7 thru 14 was done by Alexander Goldstein and the fan club in Russian Federation has referred to him to clarify Nu, Pogodi music mysteries, which surface now and then, most of which caused by the Soviet-era music source misstatements.
In 2021, Alexander composed documentary film score for Peter Mostovoy's autobiographical film The Red Scarf, which premiered on Israeli TV.
Orchestra and chamber music
In 2010, Alexander Goldstein composed Rotissimo, a Suite for Clarinet, Violin and String Orchestra, after film music of the immortal Italian film composer Nino Rota. World premiere of Rotissimo was in October 2011 in Toronto by the Canadian Sinfonietta.[13] Rotissimo had its European Debut at Sibelius Academy,[14]Helsinki, Finland: in 2012 Päivyt Meller, Violin and Julian Milkis, Clarinet. In 2017 Rotissimo had its Russian premiere at the State Academic Capella of Saint Petersburg, with Sergey Dogadin, Violin and Julian Milkis, Clarinet. In subsequent years, Maestro Goldstein created an additional version of Rotissimo for Violin, Cello and String Orchestra. It was performed in Russia and US.
In 2013 Alexander Goldstein's Trio on the Roof made its debut at the Eastman School of Music
University of Rochester, performed by Kenneth Grant (clarinet), Mikhail Kopelman (violin) and Elizaveta Kopelman (piano). This composition was performed many times since in US and Europe.
In 2015 Mr. Goldstein composed Neapolitan Symphony, a sometimes flirtatious, sometimes pensive work, inspired by the Neapolitan Dance from Tchaikovskiy's Swan Lake World premiere of Neapolitan Symphony was on December 1, 2016, in Bursa, Turkey by Sinfoni Orchestrati, conducted by Mikhail Kirchhoff.[15]
In 2017 Mr. Goldstein completed Introspective Trio. It premiered in 2019 in Arlington, VA by National Chamber Ensemble, Leo Shushansky, artistic director.[16]
Also composed in 2017 was Rhapsody on the Theme of Albinoni. It premiered in Khazan, Tatarstan by Primavera Chamber Orchestra with Rustem Abyazov, Violin, (Russia) and Mark Drobinsky, Cello (France).[17]
Also in 2017 Mr. Goldstein composed nostalgic "Romancing the Eyes," inspired by the ultra popular Ochi Chornye romance, performed by Alexandra Carlson.[18]
In 2018, Maestro Goldstein composed Amarcord Variations for Clarinet Solo.
In 2020 Mr. Goldstein composed a cycle of Russian Romances to poems from "One-way Correspondence", a book of poetry by Marina Berkovich. Some of these romances premiered in Moscow in 2021, at Leo Tolstoy's Home-Museum, performed by Victoria Dmitrieva-Goldstein (no relation).[19]
In 2021 Maestro Goldstein composed Symphonic Poem To Be Or Not To Be to Hamlet's soliloquy by William Shakespeare.
In 2022 Maestro Goldstein composed The Beauty Of Ostinato for String Orchestra and Bass Guitar.
In 2023 Maestro Goldstein composed Forward To The Past for Two Violins and Pipe Organ.
In 2024 Maestro Goldstein composed On The Wings Of Classics, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra.
Filmography
Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for 26 feature films including:
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.[49]
Alexander Goldstein Category A figure skating coach in USA and Merit Coach of Russian Federation.
Over 40 Individual Olympic medals were won with Alexander Goldstein's music services.
SportMusic.com Label CD Releases
2017-2024 published 50 digital albums
2017 Waltz for Paul Mauriat
2014 ICE WATER FLOOR, The Twisted Classics Collection
2011 Figure Skating Classics
Awards
Alexander received 5 Telly Awards for his work, including
2015 Siver TELLY Awards for WE TESTIFY: Testimony to Truth, Telly Awards for Naples Oral Histories: "If These Walls Could Talk" and for "Naples, Florida REDEFINING PARADISE," :Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers: Richard Segalman,"
Videographer Awards for "We Got It Good" and "Kings of the Dance II",
AVA Platinum Award for "Naples Oral Histories: 'If These Walls Could Talk",
Choice Star Award from Naples Daily News,
Hermes Awards for "Naples, Florida REDEFINING PARADISE" and "Because Someone Believed in Me".
Many films that included Alexander's participation were awarded State Prize and USSR and International film festival awards in various countries.
