With violinist Alex Goldberg, featuring pianist Po-Wei Ger

Premiering on YouTube, Spotify Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and literarymusic.org/watch

Program:

Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Mvt. 1

Paganini: Caprice No. 23

Goethe: Excerpts from Faust

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. While at Yale, 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 attended and performed at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Heifetz International Music Institute, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Aspen Music Festival, and Music@Menlo, where he received a merit scholarship, and also attended the Taos School of Music. He has had masterclasses 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 eight. His Carnegie Weill Hall debut was at age eleven, and he also performed in Boston’s Jordan Hall for NPR’s From The Top. He has 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  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.