St. Petersburg Times Fine Arts Writer John Fleming talked last week with Caroline Goulding, who is performing tonight at the Palladium. The 19-year-old violinist is kicking off our Young Concert Artist Series. The show has generated a lot of excitement among classical music lovers and music students. Caroline appeared Tuesday at Gibbs High School in St. Pete, doing a performance and a master class for students.
Here is an excerpt from John’s article that run last Sunday:
Grammy nominee on priceless Stradivarius
Violinist Caroline Goulding inaugurates another series, the Young Concert Artist Series at the Palladium. On Wednesday, Goulding and pianist Dina Vainshtein will play sonatas by Mozart, Schumann and Enescu as well as a pair of French pieces by Faure and Saint-Saens/Ysaye.
Goulding was 17 when her first CD, a recital on the Telarc label, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Now, two years later, she has a full performance schedule, while still attending the New England Conservatory of Music. There she studies with Donald Weilerstein (who also taught Stefan Jackiw, soloist in the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Florida Orchestra this weekend), mostly on the pieces she plays in recitals and with orchestras.
“This year my big piece is the Sibelius concerto,” she said recently from a Panera Bread in Boston. “I’m going to be playing that a lot. Also the Mendelssohn concerto and the Bruch Scottish Fantasy.”
Goulding, who grew up in Port Huron, a small city on the shore of Lake Huron in Michigan, started playing violin, learning under the Suzuki method, when she was 3 1/2. With her parents, special-education teachers, she moved to Cleveland at age 12 to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her older brothers played sax and trumpet in middle and high school. “I just wanted to do what my brothers were doing,” she said. “Without such a supportive family, I wouldn’t have any of this so-called success or whatnot.”
Today, she plays a priceless violin, the “General Kyd” Stradivarius from 1720. It’s on loan to her from a violin collector in London, Jonathan Moulds, president of Bank of America in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“I’ve had it since February 2010,” she said. “I’m still getting to know it. It’s still getting to know me. It’s a process. I think with greater opportunities come greater responsibilities. Playing this wonderful instrument, I feel I have a responsibility to play it well, to dig as deep as I can and get as much as I can from it in terms of color and sound.”
On Tuesday, Goulding will spend the afternoon at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School, where she will perform and give a master class. “Whenever I play for students, they all seem fascinated by classical music,” she said. “You want to start with the most accessible, so keeping that in mind, I’ll probably include some Beethoven in what I play for them.”
Others on the Palladium’s new series are violinist Hahn-Bin (Jan. 18) and pianist Charlie Albright (April 18).
John Fleming can be reached at fleming@sptimes.com or (727) 893-8716.
To read the entire article click on this link: http://www.tampabay.com/features/performingarts/alexander-string-quartet-violinist-caroline-goulding-and-pianist-dina/1200637
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