33 Facts About Alexander Goldstein

Alexander Goldstein was born in Moscow, USSR, into a family of Bolshoi Theater Orchestra musicians.

Alexander Goldstein is the son of Boris Goldstein, a French Horn player of the Bolshoi Orchestra and nephew of Lev Goldstein, a French Horn player of the Red Army Theater.

Mr Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for 26 feature films, 2 silent classics, approximately 300 documentary films, animations, countless radio and television shows, circus and stage shows, commercials, and sports programs in the US and abroad.

Over his career as a sport music editor and arranger, Alexander Goldstein has worked with athletes and coaches from 20 countries and helped hundreds of National competition participants spanning 4 different continents.

Alexander Goldstein formed his own Video and Audio Production Company, ABG World.

Alexander Goldstein wrote original music scores and worked as video editor on 15 films produced by AY Associates for the US State Department.

Alexander Goldstein relocated to Naples, Florida in 2005 and continues to produce documentary films and compose music.

Alexander Goldstein directed, filmed and edited all three films for Ardani Artists Management.

In 2008, Alexander Goldstein directed and produced for Telechannel Russia a documentary film Ascension from Olympus, about Bobrin's Ice Theatre headed by European Champion Igor Bobrin and Olympic Champion Natalia Bestemianova.

In Russia, Alexander Goldstein is known for his expertise on the music of Paul Mauriat, a renowned French orchestra leader who has an official fan club.

Alexander Goldstein used Paul Mauriat's original instrumental recording of "Alouette" as music for opening animation sequence to the popular TV program "In the world of animals" for Soviet TV channel that aired in USSR and Russia for over 30 years.

In 2021, Alexander Goldstein composed documentary film score for Peter Mostovoy's autobiographical film The Red Scarf, which premiered on Israeli TV.

In 2010, Alexander Goldstein composed Rotissimo, a Suite for Clarinet, Violin and String Orchestra, after film music of the immortal Italian film composer Nino Rota.

In subsequent years, Maestro Alexander Goldstein created an additional version of Rotissimo for Violin, Cello and String Orchestra.

In 2015 Mr Alexander Goldstein composed Neapolitan Symphony, a sometimes flirtatious, sometimes pensive work, inspired by the Neapolitan Dance from Tchaikovskiy's Swan Lake World premiere of Neapolitan Symphony was on December 1,2016, in Bursa, Turkey by Sinfoni Orchestrati, conducted by Mikhail Kirchhoff.

Also in 2017 Mr Alexander Goldstein composed nostalgic "Romancing the Eyes," inspired by the ultra popular Ochi Chornye romance, performed by Alexandra Carlson.

In 2018, Maestro Alexander Goldstein composed Amarcord Variations for Clarinet Solo.

In 2020 Mr Alexander Goldstein composed a cycle of Russian Romances to poems from "One-way Correspondence", a book of poetry by Marina Berkovich.

In 2021 Maestro Alexander Goldstein composed Symphonic Poem To Be Or Not To Be to Hamlet's soliloquy by William Shakespeare.

In 2022 Maestro Alexander Goldstein composed The Beauty Of Ostinato for String Orchestra and Bass Guitar.

In 2023 Maestro Alexander Goldstein composed Forward To The Past for Two Violins and Pipe Organ.

In 2024 Maestro Alexander Goldstein composed On The Wings Of Classics, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra.

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for 26 feature films including:.

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for two silent classics of world cinema:.

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for animations and approximately 300 documentaries including:.

Alexander Goldstein performed music editing and music supervising for animations and documentaries including:.

Alexander Goldstein directed and edited films, documentaries, television shows and animations including:.

Alexander Goldstein is Merit Coach of Figure Skating Federation of Russia and collaborated with such coaches as: Elena Tchaikovskaia, Tatiana Tarasova, Tamara Moskvina, Stanislav Zhuk, Alexei Mishin, Igor Moskvin, Natalia Dubova, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Irina Rodnina, Edouard Pliner, Nikolai Morozov, Robin Wagner, Igor Shpilband and Marina Zoueva.

Together with Lyudmila Pakhomova, Alexander Goldstein established a music training program for coaches at GITIS Russian Academy of Theater Arts.

Alexander Goldstein has created such unforgettable ice dance music programs as La Cumparsita for Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov, Polovtsian Dances for Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, and popularized western music in the USSR during the Cold War by using such pop songs as: Afric Simone's Hafanana for Marina Cherkasova and Sergei Shakhrai, and Louis Armstrong's rendition of What a Wonderful World.

Alexander Goldstein has created music arrangements for 10-time Canadian National Figure Skating Champions Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, and Bulgarian World Figure Skating Champions Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio.

Alexander Goldstein created dozens, even hundreds of brilliant musical compositions.

Many films that included Alexander Goldstein's participation were awarded State Prize and USSR and International film festival awards in various countries.