Meet the Assistant Conductor

Howard Goldstein,
Assistant Conductor

Dr. Howard Goldstein is an Associate Professor of Music at Auburn University is Director of the Auburn Community Orchestra.  He also teaches Music History and Violin. He is a regular guest conductor with the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra in Birmingham and the Assistant Conductor of the Columbus (GA) Symphony, and has conducted orchestras in Baltimore, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Most recently he was resident conductor at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Dr. Goldstein is also active as a scholar in the field of American Popular Music. He was a participant in the 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Yale University, “The American Popular Ballad, 1920-1950,” led by Allen Forte. Mr. Goldstein will publish an article in a forthcoming collection of essays by seminar participants. He is also the author of several articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

A native of Los Angeles, Dr. Goldstein received his early musical education there, eventually receiving a degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied violin with Alexander Treger and conducting with Samuel Krachmalnick. After studies in historical musicology at Columbia University, where he served as Assistant Conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra, he studied conducting with Fredrick Prausnitz at the Peabody Conservatory and served as his assistant, and received Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Orchestral Conducting. Dr. Goldstein also studied with Hans Beer at the University of Southern California, Milan Horvat at the Salzburg Mozarteum Sommerakademie, and Harold Farberman at the Conductor’s Institute. Finally, Dr. Goldstein realized a long-term obsession a few years ago when he was on the television game show, Jeopardy!, becoming a two-time champion.