Education
MM, The Juilliard School
BM, The Juilliard School
Bassoonist Marc Goldberg received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School as a student of Harold Goltzer. Upon graduating, he embarked upon a varied and wide-reaching career, rapidly becoming one of New York’s most active freelance musicians and developing a close relationship with a number of Lincoln Center organizations.
He is currently the principal bassoonist of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New York City Opera, the American Ballet Theater, the Saito Kinen Orchestra, and a member of both the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and the New York Woodwind Quintet. Formerly the associate principal bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic (2000-2002), Mr. Goldberg has regularly appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, performing concerts with them across four continents and joining them on numerous recordings. Other NY area activities included seven years as a member of the New Jersey Symphony, holding the bassoon chair on the Broadway productions of “Beauty and the Beast”, “Nine”, and “Fiddler on the Roof”, and engagements and recordings with such diverse artists as Joni Mitchell, Sting, James Taylor, Natalie Merchant, Danny Elfman, Tony Bennett, and Joe Jackson.
Mr. Goldberg first appeared as soloist in 1983 with the Brandenburg Ensemble in Boston’s Symphony Hall and as part of the Great Performer’s Series in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall. Since then he has appeared with the New York Chamber Soloists in North and South America, the New York Symphonic Ensemble and Saito Kinen Orchestra in Asia, and in the New York area with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Riverside Symphony, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Long Island Philharmonic, and the NY Scandia Symphony. He is a season artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has appeared as guest with Musicians from Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Da Camera Society for Houston, Brentano Quartet, and Carnegie Hall’s Zander Band.
As a recording artist, Mr. Goldberg is featured as soloist on Stephen Gryc’s Guignol for bassoon and wind ensemble on the Naxos label as well as on a recent release of Crusell’s Trio Concertante with the Scandia Symphony. He appears on notable recordings with Renee Fleming, Itzhak Perlman, Kathleen Battle, Wynton Marsalis, and many recordings with Seiji Ozawa and the Saito Kinen Orchestra; he can also be heard on the soundtrack for more than two dozen feature films and on 3 different Broadway cast albums.
In great demand as a teacher, he is a longtime faculty member of The Juilliard School Pre College Division and The Hartt School. He also teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music, Bard College Conservatory, Mannes College, and NYU.