Biography
Violinist Caroline Goulding had already appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Pops, Detroit Symphony, and Buffalo Philharmonic by age 17. Additional early credits included television spots on The Today Show and Martha Stewart's Martha plus a Grammy Award nomination for her debut recording. Reviewers regularly praised the striking maturity of her musical readings and the sweeping command of her virtuoso technique. Goulding assembled a wide-ranging repertory that encompassed concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms (Double Concerto), Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Korngold as well as further concert and recital works by Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Gershwin, and many others.
Caroline Goulding (pronounced GOLDing) entered the world in Port Huron, Michigan, in 1992. Violin lessons began at age three with Julia Kurtyka, followed by work with Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan. When Kantor joined the Cleveland Institute of Music as Goulding turned 11, her family moved to Cleveland to continue studies with him. Further training took place at Juilliard through the Starling-Delay Symposium, at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and at the New England Conservatory of Music. A frequent presence at the Aspen Music Festival and School from age ten, Goulding won first prize in its concerto competition in 2005 at age 13. The next year she performed on the program From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall, hosted by pianist Christopher O'Riley. Prominent debuts soon followed, including a 2007 appearance with the Cleveland Pops in Vieuxtemps' Souvenir d'Amérique.
In 2008 Telarc Records signed Goulding to a three-CD contract, and her first album, titled Caroline Goulding, appeared the following year. The disc presented music by Corigliano, Kreisler, Vieuxtemps, and others with O'Riley at the keyboard; it earned a Grammy nomination and reached the classical Top 15 on Billboard. A second Telarc release, From the Top at the Pops, also came out in 2009, drawn from October 2008 concerts that featured Goulding in the Bruch First Concerto with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Fall 2011 found her studying at the New England Conservatory with Donald Weilerstein, the same year she received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Subsequent seasons brought frequent European engagements as well as performances at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall and at the Marlboro Music Festival.
A 2016 recital disc on the ARS label paired Goulding with Danae Dörken, and the two toured Europe during the 2016-2017 season. A Swiss prize led to a 2018 Claves recording that set the Korngold concerto beside Mozart's Concerto No. 5 with the Berner Symphonieorchester under Kevin John Edusei.
Caroline Goulding (pronounced GOLDing) entered the world in Port Huron, Michigan, in 1992. Violin lessons began at age three with Julia Kurtyka, followed by work with Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan. When Kantor joined the Cleveland Institute of Music as Goulding turned 11, her family moved to Cleveland to continue studies with him. Further training took place at Juilliard through the Starling-Delay Symposium, at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and at the New England Conservatory of Music. A frequent presence at the Aspen Music Festival and School from age ten, Goulding won first prize in its concerto competition in 2005 at age 13. The next year she performed on the program From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall, hosted by pianist Christopher O'Riley. Prominent debuts soon followed, including a 2007 appearance with the Cleveland Pops in Vieuxtemps' Souvenir d'Amérique.
In 2008 Telarc Records signed Goulding to a three-CD contract, and her first album, titled Caroline Goulding, appeared the following year. The disc presented music by Corigliano, Kreisler, Vieuxtemps, and others with O'Riley at the keyboard; it earned a Grammy nomination and reached the classical Top 15 on Billboard. A second Telarc release, From the Top at the Pops, also came out in 2009, drawn from October 2008 concerts that featured Goulding in the Bruch First Concerto with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Fall 2011 found her studying at the New England Conservatory with Donald Weilerstein, the same year she received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Subsequent seasons brought frequent European engagements as well as performances at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall and at the Marlboro Music Festival.
A 2016 recital disc on the ARS label paired Goulding with Danae Dörken, and the two toured Europe during the 2016-2017 season. A Swiss prize led to a 2018 Claves recording that set the Korngold concerto beside Mozart's Concerto No. 5 with the Berner Symphonieorchester under Kevin John Edusei.
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