Burt Goldstein
Burt Goldstein
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About Burt Goldstein
Burt Goldstein is a Movie music composer specialized in in big orchestral and choral works, used in drama, adventure and romantic comedy. Most of his works aren't available to the general public, but can be heard in a wide variety of trailers, tv-shows and movies. COMPOSITION AWARDS • Brandenburg Chamber Music Prize in Composition (and a commission) • Aaron Copland Award • Lee Ettelson Award from Composers Inc. • Finalist for CalArts/Alpert Award in Music • Commission sponsored by the S. Mark Taper Foundation • American Music Center Composers Assistance Grants (4) • Fellowship at the Ernest Bloch Festival in Oregon under Chinary Ung • two Fellowships at the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies each under both Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND • Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dissertation: “Why Does Stravinsky Always Sound Like Stravinsky? Serial Stravinsky and Style Analysis” • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, at the Schoenberg Institute under Leonard Stein, wrote a paper: “The harmony of Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte” using a set theory approach. MAJOR TEACHERS • Henri Lazarof, UCLA (Composition), Elaine Barkin, UCLA (Theory), Aube Tzerko, UCLA (Piano), Bess Karp UCLA (Harpsichord), Robert Winter, UCLA (History) • Leonard Stein, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, USC (History) • Jacob Druckman (Composition), Aspen Institute for Advanced Composition Studies • Chinary Ung (Composition), Bloch Music Festival PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member BMI, AMC Past President, Independent Composers Association Burton Goldstein has taught composition, electronic music and music theory at: UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, El Camino College; Scripps College Claremont; and the California State University Campuses at Long Beach and Los Angeles. He served as president of the Independent Composers Association, a non-profit corporation devoted to producing concerts and promoting the work of local composers. He has been published in Perspectives of New Music, Electronic Musician, the L.A. Reader and Keyboard Magazine. He has been the technical editor for several Prentice Hall Que publications. Wrote “Tutorial: Arranging String Sections” for the recent release of Steinberg’s Halion String Edition, Vol. 1 He has composed, arranged, performed and produced music for commercial projects for: ABC; A&E; Columbia Tristar Home Video; CNN; Disney; Dreamworks; Fox; HBO; MGM; Miramax; New Line; TNT & TBS; Universal and Warner Brothers, and has arranged for Phyllis Diller and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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