Burton Goldstein

Concert compositions performed by: Arditti Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Penderecki Quartet, Xtet, Chroma Quartet, Gregg Smith Singers

in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Brussels, Krislund Norway, Casalmaggiore, Italy.

Albany Records CD - California Composers, Arditti Quartet recorded Aspen Quartet

Won:

- Borromeo String Quartet Contest, New York

- Brandenburg Chamber Music Prize in Composition and commission

- Aaron Copland Award

- Lee Ettelson Award from Composers Inc.

- Commission sponsored by the S. Mark Taper Foundation

- AMC Composers Assistance Grants (4)

- Fellowship at the Ernest Bloch Festival in Oregon (Chinary Ung)

- two Fellowships at the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies -

(Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands)

Commercial compositions used in trailers for: X-Men 3: The Last Stand, The Closer, Herbie Fully Loaded, Aliens in the Attic, Sleeping Beauty, Lions for Lambs, Bridget Jones Diary, many others.

Taught composition, electronic music and music theory at: UC Santa Barbara,

UCLA, El Camino College; Scripps College Claremont; CSU Long Beach and CSU LA.

Served as President of the Independent Composers Association.

Education

- Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the UCLA

- Dissertation: ?Why Does Stravinsky Always Sound Like Stravinsky? Serial Stravinsky

and Style Analysis?

- NEH Fellowship, at the Schoenberg Institute under Leonard Stein