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BURTON GOLDSTEIN
Honorable Mention in the 1st Opus Dissonus Composition Competition (2015)


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Burton Goldstein is active as a composer and has taught at the college and university levels. Awards include:The American Prize 2014; Vox Novus selected three works in 2014; International Music Prize; Borromeo Prize; Brandenburg Chamber Music Prize; Copland Award; Lee Ettelson Award; a commission sponsored by the S. Mark Taper Foundation; AMC Grants (4), BMI Award; Mancini Scholarship. The Aspen Quartet is recorded by the Arditti String Quartet for Albany Records. He was awarded his PhD at UCLA. Fellowships include: the Ernest Bloch Festival in Oregon (Ung); the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies (Druckman and Rands); and the Schoenberg Institute (Stein), sponsored by the NEH. Mr. Goldstein has composed music used in well over a hundred trailers and promos for major motion pictures and TV shows, including: George Lukas’ animated feature, Strange Magic (2015); Guillermo del Toro’s The Book of Life (2014); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and X-Men 3. He has taught composition, electronic music, music theory and harpsichord at: UC Santa Barbara; UCLA; El Camino College; Scripps College; and CSU: Long Beach, Fullerton and Los Angeles.

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