Ravinia 2019, Issue 7, Week 14

ALON GOLDSTEIN, piano Following his orchestra debut with the Isra- el Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta at age 18, pianist Alon Goldstein went on to win several competitions, including the Arianne Katcz and Francois Shapira Competi- tions in Israel and Nena Wideman Competition in the United States. His honors also include scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation and the 2004 Salon di Virtuosi Ca- reer Grant. Earlier this year, Goldstein became the second Peabody Conservatory graduate ever to be elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and he is a regular instructor at Isra- el’s Tel Hai international piano master classes. In recent years he has performed with the Lon- don and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Philadel- phia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Saint Louis, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. Goldstein’s orchestral highlights also include a Prokofiev concerto cycle with the Indianapolis Sympho- ny Orchestra and world premieres of concertos by Avner Dorman ( Lost Souls ) with the Kansas City Symphony and Mark Kopytman ( Orna- ments ) with the Jerusalem Camerata Orchestra. Stemming his Beethoven concerto cycle with the Rockford Symphony, he was invited to the 2010 League of American Orchestras conference to discuss the success of his accompanying mul- timedia presentation. As a chamber musician, Goldstein has long-standing relationships with Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Phillips Col- lection in Washington, DC, which featured one of his recitals on its first CD release. With the Fine Arts Quartet, Goldstein has recorded two albums on the Naxos label featuring Mozart pi- ano concertos arranged for string quintet and piano by Ignaz Lachner, also performing those works at Ravinia in 2015 and 2017. His discog- raphy has also recently included Dvořák’s piano trios with his Tempest Trio for Naxos, as well as concertos by Mendelssohn, recorded with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, for Centaur. Alon Goldstein was a fellow at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute in 1994 and has been a frequent RSMI faculty member since 2010. He made his Ravinia main-stage debut in 1996 and tonight makes his seventh concert appearance at the festival. 7:30 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 PAVILION KESHA † † Ravinia debut SEPTEMBER 3 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE 97