Israeli classical pianist born in 1970, Alon Goldstein studied at Tel Aviv University with professors Victor Derevianko and Arie Vardi, before continuing his training at the Peabody Conservatory in Maryland (USA) with Leon Fleisher, where he became his assistant. After becoming a professor in his own right, he taught at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and began a career as a concert performer and music consultant. After his first public recital in 200, the pianist collaborated with institutions such as London's Guildhall School, for which he organized concerts and performed with numerous North American orchestras and renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Yoel Levi and Yav Talmi, with whom he recorded Mendelssohn's two piano concertos. In 2009, he premiered Avner Dorman's piano concerto "Lost Souls " with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern. Under contract with the Naxos label since 2015, Alon Goldstein begins a partnership with the Fine Arts Quartet, consisting of performances of Mozart concertos, in arrangements for quintet by Ignaz Lachner. The first volumes Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21, published in 2015, are followed, in between concerts, tours and other recordings, by concertos Nos. 23 and 24 in 2018, Nos. 9 and 17 in 2021 and Nos. 19 and 25 in 2023. In addition, he performs with the Tempest Trio, which recorded two volumes of Dvořák's Trios and was awarded the 24th instalment of Domenico Scarlatti's complete keyboard sonatas by the same label. Awarded the Society of Scholars prize by John Hopkins University in Baltimore, the pianist continues to give master classes and perform at festivals.
