Randall Goosby | |
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Born | July 6, 1996 |
Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Violin |
Years active | 2006–present |
Labels | Decca Records |
Website | randallgoosby |
Randall Goosby (born July 6, 1996) [1] is an American concert violinist. He is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant [2] and was the first prize winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2018. [2] [3]
Born in San Diego, California, [4] in 1996 to a Korean mother and a Black father, [5] Goosby started learning the violin at the age of 7 and made his debut with the Jacksonville Symphony at the age of 9. At the age of 13, Goosby performed with the New York Philharmonic in a Young People's Concert at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall). [2] [3] [1] Goosby attended Juilliard's Pre-College program under a full scholarship and has both received a Bachelor of Music under Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho and a Master of Music under Donald Weilerstein and Laurie Smukler from the Juilliard School of Music on a Kovner Fellowship. [3] In 2022, Goosby received an artist diploma from Juilliard under Perlman and Catherine Cho. [6] [7]
Goosby has performed with various orchestras around the world such as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. [2] [6]
Goosby has been in multiple non-profit organizations like Project: Music Heals Us, Opportunity Music Project, and Concerts in Motion. [6] [3] In 2020, he became a Music Masters Ambassador.
In 2020, Goosby signed with Decca Records and later released his debut album 'Roots' in June of 2021 with Zhu Wang. [2] In 2022-23, he recorded Chevalier de Saint-Georges's Violin Concerto in G major for the film and soundtrack of Chevalier .
Goosby currently performs on the 1708 "ex-Strauss" Stradivarius violin on a loan from the Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea. [2] Past instruments include a Guadagnini violin loaned from the Juilliard School of Music and a 1735 Guarneri Del Gesu loaned from the Stradivari Society. [6] [3]
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