Perry Goldstein

Perry Goldstein (born 1952, New York City) studied at the University of Illinois, UCLA and Columbia University, earning a doctorate in composition in 1986; his teachers included Herbert Brun, Mario Davidovsky, Ben Johnston, Chou Wen-Chung and Paul Zonn. The composer of more than fifty works, he is especially noted for his saxophone music, much of it now standard repertoire. His roughly twenty saxophone pieces include seven quartets such as Blow!, Motherless Child Variations, Flex (2007), Angelus Novus (2011) and Mischief (2011), alongside later works like of Wines and Wines (2019), the horn trio The Slender Thread (2022) and Sutra (2023). On the Stony Brook University faculty since 1992, he chaired its Department of Music (2012-2020) and in 2016 was named a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor. He recently served as composer-in-residence at the Great Lakes Music Festival.

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