Tamara Goldstein, piano

Pianist Tamara Goldstein has enjoyed a varied career as a performer, educator and entrepreneur. Tamara has traveled with recital partners for performance and teaching engagements on four continents and has served as a presenter, adjudicator and performer at numerous national and international conferences and festivals. From 1999-2022, she was on the collaborative piano staff of the Aspen Music Festival and School, assisting renowned string faculty and coaching and accompanying gifted students. Drawn to entrepreneurial projects, Tamara curated and produced over a dozen multi-day interdisciplinary symposiums during her lengthy tenure as Associate Professor and Chair of Keyboard Studies at MSU-Denver. DU’s Lamont School of Music then recruited her to join their faculty, where she performed frequently with guest artists and faculty, in addition to teaching piano students. She also produced the highly-acclaimed music series, Rooftop 333, in Aspen.

Tamara moved to Boulder from NYC in the early ‘90s and has been an active figure on the Colorado classical music scene ever since. Her many concerto appearances with regional orchestras received high praise, and she has served as pianist with Central City Opera, the Colorado Symphony & Chorus, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, Colorado Children’s Chorale, Colorado Chamber Players, Colorado Opera Troupe, Pro Musica, among others. During recent seasons, she has performed in Fort Collins and Denver with the Front Range Chamber Players, and on the western slope in various classical series in Grand Junction, Fruita, Carbondale and Basalt. She is a founding member of the Colorado Plateau Chamber Music Society.

From a musical family, she received her early training at the pre-college divisions of Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School before earning performance degrees at Indiana University (BM), The Juilliard School (MM), and the University of Colorado (DMA). Additional piano studies included Rubin Academy in Israel, with Brigitte Engerer in France, and intensive seminars with Martin Katz, among others. Recently, Tamara has been turning her attention to animal rescue, tending to her chickens and dogs