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Highly acclaimed pianist Marvin Goldstein began musical training at age 9 and by 18 was awarded a music scholarship to Tel Aviv University School of Music, Tel Aviv, Israel. He continued his formal training at the famed "Mozarteum" of Salzburg, Austria and completed his education with Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Marvin travels extensively sharing his gift of music with people throughout the world in such places as: Jerusalem, Israel Anchorage, Alaska Oahu, Hawaii Copenhagen, Denmark Various provinces of Canada and London, England Numerous locations throughout the continental USA. He has been...

Martha Goldstein attended the Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School of Music, entirely on scholarships and fellowships. She obtained Artist Dimplomas from both institutions under her maiden name of Martha Svendsen. She won first prize in the Baltimore Steinway competition, and taught at the Peabody for 20 years. She has given concerts in the US, Norway and Sweden. Her teachers were: Audrey Plitt, Eliza Woods, James Friskin and Mieczyslaw Munz. What is said about her recordings of Chopin's Etudes on a period instrument: Complete set of Op.10 & Op.25 on an historical instrument What would the Chopin etudes sound on...

For nearly four decades, pianist/producer/arranger Gil Goldstein has drawn the musical blueprint for some of the most prominent artists in jazz – and in so doing, has become a highly influential figure in his own right. Gifted with an innate sense of compositional structure and harmonic balance, he has forged a diverse career that extends well beyond his own body of recorded work to include alternating turns as an insightful producer, a brilliant arranger and a prolific composer of more than a dozen film scores for the big and small screens. Born in Baltimore in 1950, Goldstein began playing the...

Jonathan Goldstein's radio stories and essays have appeared on numerous CBC programs. In the US, his work frequently appears on Public Radio International's This American Life where he is a contributing editor. He is an editorial board member of The Public Radio Exchange and a 2002 co-recipient of The Third Coast Audio Festival's Gold Prize. His written work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Walrus and Saturday Night. .