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First Violin

Susan Goldenberg

Violinist Susan Goldenberg has creatively shared her music throughout the world. A participant in many festivals, she has been invited to the Tanglewood, Grand Teton, Colorado and Blossom music festivals as well as Yale at Norfolk and Flagstaff Festival of the Arts. Goldenberg and her brother, William, have performed as the Goldenberg Duo for more than 43 years at various universities and series, including the University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Central Missouri and Kansas City’s Ruel Joyce Series, Westport Brown Bag Series. The Duo has enthusiastically captured audiences at the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, The Les Arts George V Series in Paris and the St. Peter’s Church Series in England. They traveled to China in 2004 for performances and master classes in Beijing, Shanghai. In 2005, the Duo performed concerts in Scandinavia in Stockholm, Retsken Art Gallery in Bergen. Their British Columbia tour in 2006 included a Vancouver Art Gallery recital and the St. John the Divine Series in Victoria. They have toured Hawaii, Alaska, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., performing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the Steinway Series, Japan and Ontario/Quebec. Most recently they performed in the Ireland/Scotland, Eastern Europe, Maritime Provinces. The duo taught and performed at the Shatford Arts Center Festival “Strings the Thing” the summer of 2018 in British Columbia. In 2019, the Duo performed concerts in Edinburgh, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Belgium and Paris. Susan was nominated Honoree of the Year by the KCMusical Club for 2018.

Goldenberg earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, where she was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. She earned her Master of Music degree with a fellowship from Yale University. She studied with Franco Gulli, Broadus Erle and Tiberius Klausner, and throughout the years coached with Josef Gingold, Alexander Schneider and Gunther Schuller. She has worked with esteemed conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Joseph Silverstein, William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein, André Previn, Aaron Copland, Anne Manson, Bernard Labadie, Robert Spano, and Michael Stern. She has been in the first violin section of the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Charlotte, North Carolina Symphony and has played for more than 40 years as a member of the first violin section of the Kansas City Symphony. She participates in the Community Connections Initiative (CCI) opportunities offered by the Kansas City Symphony. Goldenberg performs in the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and has taught in the educational programs of Charlotte, N.C., the University of San Jose, Costa Rica and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Mich. Goldenberg has a private violin studio in Kansas City, and she has taught master classes at International Schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Hiroshima, Tokyo and Victoria College of Arts in Melbourne and Jan Albrecht Academy in Slovakia, University of Maine, Presque Isle. Susan performs in the Kinnor Philharmonic, an orchestra dedicated to Jewish/classical music in Overland Park at the Jewish Community Center. In the summer, she volunteers with disabled children at CCVI-Children’s Center for Visually Impaired in Kansas City. Susan volunteers at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.


Susan Goldenberg

Violinist Susan Goldenberg has creatively shared her music throughout the world. A participant in many festivals, she has been invited to the Tanglewood, Grand Teton, Colorado and Blossom music festivals as well as Yale at Norfolk and Flagstaff Festival of the Arts. Goldenberg and her brother, William, have performed as the Goldenberg Duo for more than 43 years at various universities and series, including the University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Central Missouri and Kansas City’s Ruel Joyce Series, Westport Brown Bag Series. The Duo has enthusiastically captured audiences at the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, The Les Arts George V Series in Paris and the St. Peter’s Church Series in England. They traveled to China in 2004 for performances and master classes in Beijing, Shanghai. In 2005, the Duo performed concerts in Scandinavia in Stockholm, Retsken Art Gallery in Bergen. Their British Columbia tour in 2006 included a Vancouver Art Gallery recital and the St. John the Divine Series in Victoria. They have toured Hawaii, Alaska, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., performing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the Steinway Series, Japan and Ontario/Quebec. Most recently they performed in the Ireland/Scotland, Eastern Europe, Maritime Provinces. The duo taught and performed at the Shatford Arts Center Festival “Strings the Thing” the summer of 2018 in British Columbia. In 2019, the Duo performed concerts in Edinburgh, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Belgium and Paris. Susan was nominated Honoree of the Year by the KCMusical Club for 2018.

Goldenberg earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, where she was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. She earned her Master of Music degree with a fellowship from Yale University. She studied with Franco Gulli, Broadus Erle and Tiberius Klausner, and throughout the years coached with Josef Gingold, Alexander Schneider and Gunther Schuller. She has worked with esteemed conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Joseph Silverstein, William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein, André Previn, Aaron Copland, Anne Manson, Bernard Labadie, Robert Spano, and Michael Stern. She has been in the first violin section of the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Charlotte, North Carolina Symphony and has played for more than 40 years as a member of the first violin section of the Kansas City Symphony. She participates in the Community Connections Initiative (CCI) opportunities offered by the Kansas City Symphony. Goldenberg performs in the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and has taught in the educational programs of Charlotte, N.C., the University of San Jose, Costa Rica and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Mich. Goldenberg has a private violin studio in Kansas City, and she has taught master classes at International Schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Hiroshima, Tokyo and Victoria College of Arts in Melbourne and Jan Albrecht Academy in Slovakia, University of Maine, Presque Isle. Susan performs in the Kinnor Philharmonic, an orchestra dedicated to Jewish/classical music in Overland Park at the Jewish Community Center. In the summer, she volunteers with disabled children at CCVI-Children’s Center for Visually Impaired in Kansas City. Susan volunteers at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.