“The vibrant and intensely musical Cleveland violinist Caroline Goulding… makes her compact-disc debut with a marvelous recital of virtuoso morsels. Her playing blends refinement with technical flair, lifting every phrase to exhilarating heights…” –Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer

“Playing of fantastic style and flair, with an extraordinary virtuosity that always serves the character of the music. A violinist you must hear!” –Peter Oundjian, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

“Goulding is a skilled violinist well on her way to an important career (she recently won an Avery Fisher Career Grant and was nominated for a Grammy for her debut album on Teldec), and she got a throaty warmth from her Stradivarius rather than simply yielding to the temptation of making pretty singing sounds...It was beautifully executed." -Anne Midgette, The Washington Post
 

At age nineteen, violinist Caroline Goulding has performed as a soloist with some of North America’s premier orchestras including The Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, National Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, New Mexico 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 is the recipient of the Helen Armstrong Violin Fellowship. She was presented by YCA 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 label.

Along with the nomination, Caroline’s debut recording hit Billboard Classical’s Top 15 as well as garnered attention from other 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.”

In a review of Caroline’s summer 2011 debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, Anne Midgette of the Washington Post stated, “Goulding is a skilled violinist well on her way to an important career.”  Other highlights of the 2011-2012 season include debuts with the London Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Colorado Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Easter Music Festival Orchestra and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony as well as recital debuts at the Kansas City Harriman-Jewell Series, University of Florida, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and Fundacion Sinfonia in the Dominican Republic.  Return engagements include solo performances with the Dallas Symphony, Extremadura Symphony Orchestra of Spain and the 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, hosted by Martha Stewart, PBS’s From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall, NPR’s Performance Today, 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 Artist of the Month.

Caroline currently studies with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory.  Past teachers include Paul Kantor, Joel Smirnoff and Julia Kurtyka.  Caroline has been a participant in various summer music festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, 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.  

A past recipient of the Stradivari Society, Caroline currently plays the General Kyd Stradivarius (c 1720), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.

Audio Clip: Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218, I. Allegro