Still in her teens, Caroline Goulding has been proclaimed as “A precociously gifted virtuoso…a violinist of impressive technical polish and musical maturity” by Gramophone magazine.  She has performed as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cincinnati Pops, the Cleveland Pops, and the Aspen Concert Orchestra, to name a few.  Ms. Goulding was featured on the cover of Strings Magazine in December 2009, with her article about the Korngold Violin Concerto appearing in the issue as well.  She was on National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” hosted by (YCA Alumnus) pianist Christopher O’Riley, when she was 14, and has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and the “Today” Show.  At 16, Telarc recorded a CD with Ms. Goulding and pianist Christopher O’Riley, which won a 2010 GRAMMY nomination. 

Ms. Goulding was a First Prize winner in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where she was also awarded the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize.  Ms. Goulding’s New York debut opens the 50^th Anniversary season of the Young Concert Artists Series, sponsored by the Rhoda Walker Teagle Concert Prize.  She will be presented in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and co-presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society in her Kennedy Center debut.

Also this season, Ms. Goulding has been re-engaged to appear with the Cleveland Orchestra, in addition to performances as soloist with the Sarasota, ProMusica Chamber, Atlantic Classical, Toronto, Charlotte, Westmoreland, and Traverse City symphonies.  She appears in recital at the Port Washington Library, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Brownville Concert Series, University of Georgia in Athens, Sailfish Point Community Association, and Houghton College Artist Series.

At the age of 13, Ms. Goulding won the Concerto Competition at the Aspen Festival, and was soon to appear in orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Louisville Youth Orchestra. 

Ms. Goulding hails from Port Huron, Michigan where she began violin lessons at the age of three under the tutelage of Julia Kurtyka, and continued her studies with Paul Kantor.  She has participated in the Starling-DeLay Symposium at the Juilliard School, at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.  She currently works with Joel Smirnoff at the Cleveland Institute of Music.  Ms. Goulding plays the General Kyd Stradivarius (c 1720), on loan to her through the generous courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.

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