Alexander Goldstein

Alexander Goldstein
Alexander Goldstein in the studio
Born	(1948-08-10) August 10, 1948 Moscow, USSR
Residence	Naples, Florida USA
Nationality	Russian, American
Education	The Gnessin School of Music
Occupation	Film director, film producer, music composer
Years active	1976–present
Website	AlexanderGoldstein.com

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 and career

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. 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. Over 40 Olympic Medals and over 120 World Medals were won using the music that he either edited or arranged.^[3]

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,^[4] 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,^[5] 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^[6] Russian Federation and a long-running TV Show Time Out^[7] which was hosted by Oleg Frish and produced for New Age Media in New York City, 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 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 Theatre, 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,^[9] a documentary film 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 especially 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 2010, Alexander Goldstein composed a Suite for Clarinet, Violin and String Orchestra – Rotissimo – 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.^[12]

November 22, 2012 Rotissimo had its European Debut at Sibelius Academy,^[13] Helsinki, Finland: Clarinet Soloist, Julian Milkis and Violin Soloist, Päivyt Meller.

On April 7, 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).

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.^[14] During First International Paul Mauriat Festival, which concluded in March 2015, Alexander Goldstein chaired the jury. Nu, Pogodi! fan club in Russian Federation has referred to Alexander Goldstein for music mysteries, which surface now and then, caused by the Soviet-era music source misstatements.

On New Year's Eve 2016, Rotissimo had its Russian premiere at the State Academic Capella of Saint Petersburg, with Sergey Dogadin, violin solo and Julian Milkis, clarinet solo.

In 2015 Mr. Goldstein composed Neapolitan Symphony, a sometimes flirtatious, sometimes pensive work, inspired by the Neapolitan Dance from Tchaikovskiy's Swan Lake

Filmography

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for 26 feature films including:

• 2009 Attrakzion (TV mini-series)^[15]
• 1992 Love in Moscow^[16]
• 1991 Nomer Luks dlya Generala s Devochkoi^[17]
• 1991 Oblako-ray^[18]
• 1990 Neotstreliannaya Muzyka^[19]
• 1990 Vybor^[20]
• 1990 Yego zhena kuritsa^[21]
• 1990 Vanka-vstanka^[22]
• 1989 Zhena kerosinshchika^[23]
• 1989 Ya v polnom poryadke^[24]
• 1988 Bomzh (Bez opredelyonnogo mesta zhitelstva)^[25]
• 1987 Staraya azbuka^[26]
• 1987 Muzykalnaya Smena^[27]
• 1986 Chelovek s akkordeonom^[28]
• 1986 Veruyu v lyubov^[29]
• 1985 Bereg^[30]
• 1982 Assol^[31]
• 1981 Ozhidaetsa Poholodania i Sneg^[32]
• 1979 Tut, Nedaleko...^[33]

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for two silent classics of world cinema:

• 1928 Storm Over Asia by Vsevolod Pudovkin
• 1926 The Case of Three Million by Yakov Protazanov

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for animations and approximately 300 documentaries including:

• 2007 Orange Winter
• 2006 Konstantin and Mouse^[5]
• 2005 Silk Road Festival
• 2005 USA – Russia Star Wars
• 2002 Vasya
• 2002 Energy
• 2002 One Year Later
• 2001 Six Days^[4]
• 2001 Gagarin
• 2000 Gore – Bush
• 2000 Alaska
• 1989 Mir vam, Sholom^[34]
• 1985 Lyubov Orlova^[35]
• 1984 Alhimik^[36]
• 1983 Devochka i piraty^[37]
• 1983 Myshonok i koshka^[38]
• 1982 Volshcbinoe Lekarstvo^[39]
• 1981 Prihodi Na Katok^[40]

Alexander Goldstein performed music editing and music supervising for animations and documentaries including:

• 1996 Spheres^[41]
• 1984–1973 Nu, pogodi! Episodes 7–14 (music editing)
• 1979 Que Viva Mexico (music supervising)

Alexander Goldstein directed and edited films, documentaries, television shows and animations including:

• 2013 Naples, Florida: Redefining Paradise
• 2011 Naples Oral Histories: If These Walls Could Talk
• 2010 We Got It Good
• 2009 Kings of the Dance II
• 2008 Voshozhdenie s Olimpa^[9]
• 2006 Kings of the Dance (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)^[7]
• 2005–2002 Progulki po Broadway (TV Show 50 26-minute episodes)
• 2002 Gariki I Cheloveki (5-part documentary)

SportMusic

Leading into 1980 Summer Olympics 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^[42] 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)

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.^[42]

Alexander Goldstein Class A figure skating coach in USA and Merit Coach of Russian Federation.

Awards

Alexander has received 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", 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 from Naples Daily News, and 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. Alexander is also awarded Merit Coach of Figure Skating Federation of Russia.^[42]

References

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
• Goldstein's role in Meryl Davis & Charlie White's win
• 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
• Faculty Artist Series Eastman School of Music University of Rochester – Mikhail Kopelman, violin: Holocaust 70th Anniversary Memorial Concert play music composed by Alexander Goldstein