June 4, 2010

Meet Caroline Goulding

17-year-old violinist Caroline Goulding was a First Prize winner in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where she was also awarded the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize. Ms. Goulding’s New York debut opens the 50th Anniversary season of the Young Concert Artists Series, sponsored by the Rhoda Walker Teagle Concert Prize. She will also be presented in her Kennedy Center debut, as well as in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Ms. Goulding was featured on the cover of Strings Magazine, which included an article that she wrote about the Korngold Violin Concerto. She first appeared on National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” hosted by (YCA Alumnus) pianist Christopher O’Riley, when she was 14. Ms. Goulding has also appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and the “Today” Show. At 16, Telarc recorded a CD with Ms. Goulding and pianist Christopher O’Riley, which won a 2010 GRAMMY nomination.

This season, Ms. Goulding has been re-engaged to appear at the Lexington Bach Festival, with the International Symphony Orchestra (MI) and with the Buffalo Philharmonic. She will also appear as soloist with the Boise Philharmonic, the Asheville (NC) and Toronto symphonies, and performs the Brahms Double Concerto with the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra of Spain, conducted by Jesús Amigo.

At the age of 13, Ms. Goulding won the Concerto Competition at the Aspen Festival, and was soon to appear orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Louisville Youth Orchestra.

Ms. Goulding hails from Ohio, where she began violin lessons at the age of three under the tutelage of Julia Kurtyka. She has participated in the Starling-Delay Symposium at the Juilliard School, at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She currently works with Paul Kantor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Ms. Goulding plays a General Kyd Stradivarius (c 1720), on loan to her through the generous courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.