Spotlight | First Violin

Susan Goldenberg

Violinist Susan Goldenberg has creatively shared her music throughout the world. A participant in many festivals, she has been invited to the Tanglewood, Grand Teton, Colorado and Blossom music festivals as well as Yale at Norfolk and Flagstaff Festival of the Arts. Goldenberg and her brother, William, have performed as the Goldenberg Duo for more than 43 years at various universities and series, including the University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Central Missouri and Kansas City’s Ruel Joyce Series, Westport Brown Bag Series. The Duo has enthusiastically captured audiences at the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, The Les Arts George V Series in Paris and the St. Peter’s Church Series in England. They traveled to China in 2004 for performances and master classes in Beijing, Shanghai. In 2005, the Duo performed concerts in Scandinavia in Stockholm, Retsken Art Gallery in Bergen. Their British Columbia tour in 2006 included a Vancouver Art Gallery recital and the St. John the Divine Series in Victoria. They have toured Hawaii, Alaska, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., performing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the Steinway Series, Japan and Ontario/Quebec. Most recently they performed in the Ireland/Scotland, Eastern Europe, Maritime Provinces. The duo taught and performed at the Shatford Arts Center Festival “Strings the Thing” the summer of 2018 in British Columbia. In 2019, the Duo performed concerts in Edinburgh, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Belgium and Paris. Susan was nominated Honoree of the Year by the KCMusical Club for 2018.