Marc Goldberg
Principal Bassoon
Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Bassoonist Marc Goldberg’s work as musician and educator has taken him throughout the country and around the world with a host of premiere ensembles. The newest member of the renowned NY Woodwind Quintet and the principal bassoonist of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, he has previously held positions as principal bassoon with the NYC Opera (04-05) and associate principal bassoon of the NY Philharmonic (00-02). He has been a frequent guest of the Metropolitan Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus, and the Eos Chamber Orchestra, touring with these ensembles across 4 continents and joining them on numerous recordings. Solo appearances include performances with the Brandenburg Ensemble at Boston’s Symphony Hall and NY’s Avery Fisher, and performances throughout the US, in South America, and across the Pacific Rim with the American Symphony Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, NY Chamber Soloists, Sea Cliff Chamber Players, NY Symphonic Ensemble, and NY Scandia Symphony. He has been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Da Camera Society of Houston, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Musicians from Marlboro, the Brentano Quartet, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Band, and the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival. For many years a member of the American Composers Orchestra, Chelsea Chamber Ensemble, and Ensemble Sospeso, Mr. Goldberg has been a champion of new music, premiering numerous orchestral, chamber, and operatic works over the last 20 years. He has been invited to Tokyo as principal bassoon of the Tokyo Opera Nomori, joining musicians from around the globe in a production of Verdi’s Othello.
Mr. Goldberg has appeared at the summer festivals of Spoleto, Ravinia, Chattauqua, Tanglewood, Caramoor, and Marlboro, and has been associated with the Bard Music Festival since its inception, both as chamber musician and principal bassoonist of the Bard Festival Orchestra. He has also been active in the commercial music field, appearing with such diverse artists as James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Joe Jackson, and has recorded cast albums for three Broadway shows and soundtracks for more than two dozen films. Mr. Goldberg began his association with Juilliard as a student of Harold Goltzer at the Pre-College, continuing on with Mr. Goltzer to take both his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the Upper Division. Faculty: The Juilliard School, Mannes College, the Hartt School, Columbia University, and in 2005, SUNY Purchase and the newly formed Bard College Conservatory of Music.
