Susan Goldenberg
B.M. Indiana University
M.M. Yale University

Member of the Orchestra Since 1982

Violinist Susan Goldenberg has creatively shared her music throughout the world. She has been invited to the Tanglewood Music Festival, Grand Teton Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Yale at Norfolk and Flagstaff Festival of the Arts. As a chamber musician she co-founded the Charlotte Symphony String Quartet and the Quartet of San Jose, Costa Rica. Goldenberg and her brother, William, have performed as the Goldenberg Duo for 30 years at various universities and series including the University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-Columbia, Central Missouri State University and Kansas City’s Ruel Joyce Series. The Duo has enthusiastically captured audiences at the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, The Les Arts George V Series in Paris, and the St.Peter’s Church Series in England. They traveled to China in 2004 for performances and masterclasses in Beijing, Shanghai. In 2005, the Duo performed concerts in Scandinavia in Stockholm, Retsken Art Gallery in Bergen. Their British Columbia Tour in 2006 included a Vancouver Art Gallery recital and The St. John the Divine Series in Victoria. The Duo performed and taught in Australia/New Zealand during 2007. In 2008, they performed and taught in Hawaii. They toured Alaska in 2009. They will tour DC/Baltimore in 2010. Goldenberg earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, where she was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. She earned her Master of Music degree with a fellowship from Yale University. She studied with Franco Gulli, Broadus Erle and Tiberius Klausner, and throughout the years coached with Josef Gingold, Alexander Schneider and Gunther Schuller. She has worked with esteemed conductors: Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Joseph Silverstein, William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, Aaron Copland and Michael Stern. She has been in the first violin section of the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Charlotte, North Carolina Symphony and has played for 30 years as a member of the first violin section of the Kansas City Symphony. Goldenberg participates in the CCI Community Connections Initiative of The Kansas City Symphony, performing and educating in the Kansas City area. It is funded through the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the James L. Knight Foundation. Susan performs in the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and has taught in the educational programs of Charlotte, NC, the University of San Jose, Costa Rica and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan. In the summer, Susan volunteers with disabled children at CCVI-Children’s Center for Visually Impaired in Kansas City.