Chason Goldschmitz

Composer, arranger, producer,
artistic administrator

Chason Goldschmitz’s arrangements and orchestrations have been performed by soprano Renée Fleming, the Baltimore Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and others, and his original compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the Juilliard Orchestra and the Daedalus String Quartet, as well as pianists Natalie Zhu and Tengku Irfan, and cellists Jonah Kim, Nathan Chan, and Phillip Sheegog.

Goldschmitz received his Master’s of Music in music composition from The Juilliard School and has received composition awards from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, and ASCAP, as well as commissions from the 92nd Street Y, violinists Asi Matathias and Dennis Kim, and violist Basil Vendryes. He has been a featured composer on classical radio stations WFMT (Chicago), WWFM (Princeton, NJ), and Polskie Radio II (Warsaw, Poland), as well as on NPR’s From the Top!, and has given guest lectures in music composition at Chopin University (Warsaw, Poland) and the American Harp Society National Conference.

Goldschmitz currently serves as the Administrative and Special Projects Associate for the office of a prominent classical musician. Prior to this, Goldschmitz co-founded the first contemporary opera program at The Juilliard School, as Co-Artistic Director of the Opera-Composer Collaborative Project (OperaComp, now OperaLab), where he facilitated the creation, staging, and premiere of six new opera scenes per year, along with establishing a collaboration with performance venue National Sawdust.

Outside of music, Goldschmitz completed a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science at Columbia University under the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange program and a 3-year accelerated graduation track, and led scientific research studies in neuroscience and geochemistry at the Columbia University Medical Center and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.