
Concert Music
Aspen Quartet (2004)
Performances: LA County Museum of Art, Brussels Gran Place, Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies, San Francisco’s Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium
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Winner: Lee Ettleson Award, of Composers, Inc. (1st place), AMC CAP Award
“...strong, propulsive...What I admired particularly about Goldstein’s work was the sureness of its narrative, the convincing way idea seemed to beget idea.”
- Alan Rich, LA Weekly

Two Pieces for Orchestra (2016)
orchestration of Two Pieces for Piano Quintet
1. Time Again
2. Time's Up
MIDI realization by composer
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Cage 100 Party Piece (2013)
for oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, accordion, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello & toy piano
I was one of 128 composers asked by the Forum of Contemporary Music Leipzig (FZML) to write one page based on the last bar of the previous page (which gave me only 3 pitches), to honor Cage's 100th birthday
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Performed October 17, 2013, Miller Theatre, Columbia School of the Arts by Ensemble Either/Or, Richard Carrick, conductor
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The first European premiere of the 125 Party Pieces took place in Leipzig's UT Connewitz, which was sold out that evening. A glorious concert, affected by musicians, who kissed their instruments as well as by confetti flying through the concert hall. All in all, it was a diversified, multicolored convert, realized with the help of the ensemble Work in Progress - Berlin, under the direction of conductor Gerhard Müller-Goldboom, January 20,2016
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recording is a MIDI realization by the composer
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Ommateum III for String Quartet
in progress - based on Ommateum for WW Quintet
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rough MIDI realization by composer - short clip
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Light and Air (2009)
flute, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, horn, tuba, percussion
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MIDI realization by composer
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Aspen Duet III (2014)
Bb clarinet and piano
Arrangement of the Aspen Quartet, which was written while a Fellow at the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies, under Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands
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MIDI realization by composer
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Canonic Variations on O Virtus (2012)
for solo recorder
An antiphon by Hildegard von Bingen
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Selected by The International Composition Contest on the theme of the canonization of Hildegard von Bingem for performance by Gaby Bultman, as part of the 777-year anniversary of Berlin
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MIDI realization by composer
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Pater Noster (2007)
for choir SSAATTBB
Composed with the assistance of a grant from the Copland House and an AMC CAP Grant
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Sung by The Gregg Smith Singers, cond. Gregg Smith, April 25, 2008 as part of The American Masterpieces Choral Music Festival at St. Peter's Church, NYC
Part of the NEA series American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of American Genius
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Pale Fire (1994)
flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano. harp & percussion
Commissioned with funds provided by the S. Mark Taper Foundation
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2nd Place, Independent Composers Association Composition Contest
Performed: April 6, 1994 - Bing Theater, LA County Museum of Art
Stephen Stucky, conductor
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Ommateum II (2011)
for symphony orchestra
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Midi realization by composer
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Sextet (1988)
for flute, Bb clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
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Winner, 3rd Annual Pacific Composers Forum Competition, 1989
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Performed by XTET - Donald Crockett, conductor
September 6, 1990 - Japan American Theatre, Los Angeles
May 17, 1989 - Gindi Auditorium, University of Judaism, Los Angeles
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Other performances:
March 11-12, 1988 - SEAMUS-LA Tape Marathon
April 22, 1990 - The Independent Composers Association presents Ten Southland Composers in Two Evenings
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