NOON RECITAL

 

Celeste Golden

Tuesday, June 17, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Program

Celeste Golden, Bronze Medalist in the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, began her musical studies at the age of three and made her orchestral debut at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas Texas at eleven. Since then, she has performed to acclaim with numerous orchestras around the world, including the Latvian Chamber Orchestra in Riga, Latvia, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, The Amadeus Chamber Players in Hannover, Germany, The Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia in Brussels, Belgium, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, The Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival Sinfonia Orchestra, the American Academy of Conducting Orchestra, and the Waco Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to her most recent prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis of 2006, Celeste has taken prizes at several national and international competitions.  Also last year, she was the Grand Prize Winner at the Kingsville International Competition.   In 2005, she was the winner of the Aspen Music Festival and School Concerto Competition, the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, third prizewinner of the Ima Hogg International Music Competition in Houston, Texas, and a semifinalist of the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium.  Other prizes have included those at the Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition (Dallas Symphony Orchestra), Corpus Christi Young Artists' Competition, Irving M. Klein Competition, Dallas Music Teacher's Association Symphonic Festival, (first prize 1995, 96, 97, 98, Grand Prize winner, 2000) Lennox Young Artists competition, Juanita Miller Youth Competition and Sunray Music Festival.

Celeste was accepted into the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music at age 15 where she studied with Jaime Laredo and Ida Kavafian. She received her bachelor's degree in 2005 and is currently completing her master's degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music under Paul Kantor and David Cerone. Before that, from 1994 until 2000, she studied with Arkady Fomin of Dallas.

In 2004, Celeste won a three-year fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and School and subsequently was awarded the Dorothy Delay Memorial Fellowship, an award given to only one violin student each summer.  This summer, she will attend to the Marlboro Music School and Festival.  In 1999 Celeste was the youngest member of the New York String Orchestra Seminar, and returned as concertmaster in 2005 with concerts at Carnegie Hall.  She is currently a member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Germantown, TN under conductor Michael Stern.