Music Services

To reach out to Chason Goldschmitz regarding any of the following services, please fill out the contact form accordingly. Thank you.

Music Preparation

Services include:
- Digitizing handwritten or original scores
- Transposing an existing score or parts
- PDFs of score and parts at highest-quality notation
- Clean-up of digital scores

Sibelius files are preferred, but MIDI and MusicXML (from Finale) are acceptable.

Clients Include:
Estate of Jonathan D. Kramer, composer

Copying-Engraving Rates:
Score: $40/hr or $3.33/line
Parts: $40/hr, $7/page, or +10% of score cost
(whichever is cheapest).

Rates are negotiable for larger projects. Engraving samples available upon request.

Orchestration & Arranging

Services include:
- Quartet, piano, or other reductions of large scores
- Arrangements between different instruments or re-orchestrations
- Orchestrations or ensemble arrangements of piano parts, songs, etc.

Clients Include:
Renée Fleming, soprano
Maria Schneider, composer
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Jasmine Choi, flute

Orchestration Rates:
Vary by project & instrumentation. Please inquire for more details.

Teaching

Teaching areas:
Music composition
Music theory (incl. AP prep)
Viola, beginner-intermediate
Violin, beginner

Qualifications:
Music Theory:
- Teaching Fellow for Juilliard School Dept. of Music Theory, working under Behzad Ranjbaran

Composition
- M.M. Comp. '18, Juilliard School
- Studied with Robert Beaser (Juilliard), David Ludwig (Curtis), etc.

Viola & violin:
- Former principal viola of Columbia U. Orch.
- Studied with members of Philadelphia & Cleveland Orchestras

Teaching Rates (Virtual):
$65/hr, or
$40/half-hour