Alex Goldberg: From Bach to Berio
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Eugene Ysaÿe: Sonata No. 1 in G minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: From the Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIII
Alex Goldberg, 22, is currently completing his Master’s Degree with renowned violinist Ani Kavafian at the Yale School of Music. He graduated from Yale College with a Bachelor’s Degree in philosophy, where he also won the Joseph Lentilhon Selden award for “verve, idealism and constructive interest in music and the humanities” and the Head of College Cup for “outstanding scholarly achievement and creative promise.” He recently played the Brahms violin concerto with the Yale Symphony after winning Yale’s William Waite concerto competition and performed as a soloist with the Yale Philharmonia.
Alex previously studied with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music. He has attended and performed at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Heifetz International Music Institute, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Aspen Music Festival, Music@Menlo, where he received a merit scholarship, and attended the Taos School of Music. He has had master classes with artists including Pinchas Zukerman, Ben Zander, Fang Lei, Merry Peckham, Jorja Fleezanis, the Pacifica Quartet, and Gilles Apap. Alex made his debut as a soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra playing Vivaldi’s Spring at age 8, his Carnegie Weill Hall debut at age 11, and performed in Boston’s Jordan Hall for NPR’s From The Top. He has also performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras in the Boston area, including the Concord, Brockton, and Quincy symphony orchestras. An avid chamber musician and recitalist, Alex is very passionate about combining concerts with lectures on music, art, and literature. Recent projects in this vein include a lecture-recital on the links between Goethe, Brahms, and Romanticism in literature and music and a live-streamed recital on the concept of motion in Plato, Euripides, Bach, and Ysaÿe.