Caroline Goulding, violin
At age eighteen, violinist Caroline Goulding has performed as a soloist with some of North America’s premier orchestras
including The Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Columbus ProMusica, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Cleveland Pops and the Cincinnati Pops.
Aside from her orchestral engagements, Caroline has appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, (Le) Poisson Rouge, the Kennedy Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society’s Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, and the University of Georgia’s Ramsey Concert Hall. She has shared the stage with Béla Fleck, Anton Nel,
Christopher O’Riley, Navah Perlman, Wendy Warner and Elaine Douvas.
On March 14, 2011 Caroline was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant at a reception and
performance at Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
The 2010-2011 season marked a cycle of solo orchestral engagements including debuts with the Louisville Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, El Paso Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and return solo appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra,
Toronto Symphony and Atlantic Classical Orchestra. Prior to receiving the Career Grant,
Caroline won the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was presented in
recital throughout the nation including debuts at the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall in NYC,
Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre in Washington DC and the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston. That same year, Caroline was awarded a Grammy nomination for her
debut recording on the Telarc record label.
Along with the nomination, Caroline’s debut recording garnered attention from venerable
musicians, including violinist Jaime Laredo who voiced, “Caroline Goulding is one of the most
gifted and musically interesting violinists I have heard in a long time; her playing is heartfelt
and dazzling throughout.” Composer John Corigliano, whose Red Violin Caprices she
recorded, said, “She gives a totally individual interpretation to my music. I think she will
shortly become a very famous young woman and only hope that she gives my other violin
works a glance.”
Highlights of the upcoming 2011-2012 season include debuts with the National Symphony
Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony and
the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra as well as recital debuts at the Kansas City Harriman-
Jewell Series, University of Florida and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in
Washington DC. Return engagements include solo performances with the Dallas Symphony and Boise Philharmonic.
Along with her orchestral and recital appearances, Caroline has also made her way through
national television and radio airwaves on NBC’s Today, MARTHA, PBS’s From the Top: Live
from Carnegie Hall, NPR’s From the Top, Sirius Satellite Radio, WNYC New York, CosmoGirl
Online and is featured on Maestro Erich Kunzel’s last Telarc recording From the Top at the
Pops, released in 2009. In December 2009, Caroline was named Musical America’s New
Artist of the Month.
Caroline began studying the violin at the age of three-and-a-half with Julia Kurtyka and will
begin studying with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston, fall
2011. A past Starling Foundation Scholarship recipient, Caroline’s previous teachers include
Paul Kantor and Joel Smirnoff at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Caroline has been a part of
various summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival and School, where she
won the Aspen Music Festival’s Concerto Competition at age 13, Interlochen Arts Camp, and
The Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In summer
2011, Caroline will attend the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.
A past recipient of the Stradivari Society, Caroline currently plays the General Kyd
Stradivarius (c 1720), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.