About

ALAN GOLDSPIEL has performed world premieres at New York’s Carnegie and CAMI Halls and has been featured on NPR radio stations from coast to coast, and performed in the critically acclaimed Goldspiel/Provost Duo.

In 2018, SAI honored him as a “Friend of the Arts,” and he was designated a 2018 NAMM Foundation/CMS GenNext Fellow.

He is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts 2016-2017 Artist Fellowship Award for artistic excellence as well as professional commitment and maturity – awarded to outstanding individual artists from Alabama who create important works of art and make valuable contributions to the entire state.

His music has been performed at national and international events including the conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance, International Clarinet Association, New Music on the Bayou, and National Association of Composers/USA.

Dr. Goldspiel received the 2014 Alabama Music Teachers Association Composition Commission and in 2013, he was awarded the Escape-to-Create Residency in Seaside, Florida.

He is the only guitarist to be honored with the Marshall Dodge Award of the Performing Artists Associates of New England and has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Philharmonic, Sinfonie-by-the-Sea, and served as an Artist-in-Residence for North Carolina’s prestigious Visiting Artists Program, presenting over eighty concerts throughout that state.

As the Music Director of the Magic Shtetl Klezmer Band, he has performed and arranged many pieces from the classic Klezmer repertoire. His composition project, a Klezmer Shabbat Service, keeps that tradition current.

He has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, research, and service including the Louisiana State Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award for artistic excellence and the University Senate Chair Award from Louisiana Tech University. He has taught at the International Guitar Festival held at the The Hartt School, where he remains the only guitarist to be designated University Scholar for his research on the music of Villa-Lobos. He is Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo.

In 2023, Dr. Goldspiel was certified as an Avid Pro Tools Professional as well as successfully received a certificate of completion for Allen Parson’s “Art and Science of Sound Recording: Classic Recording Techniques/The Fundamentals of Recording and Music Production” course.

He is also a member of the SAI Composers Bureau as well as Vice President of the National Association of Composers/USA and President of the National Association of Composers/USA – Mid-South Chapter.