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The American-born Israeli soprano, Tehila Nini Goldstein, was born in New York (her mother is an Israeli of Yemeni origin, and her father is an American), and grew up in the Judean Mountains near Jerusalem. She began singing at the age of 12 in the Ankor Children's Choir in Jerusalem with whom she sang under the batons of Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Antonio Pappano, Zubin Mehta, Luciano Berio and many more of the world’s most remarkable musicians of our times. At the age of 20, after a 2 year military service, she chose music as her main path. She studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and with the soprano Efrat Ben-Nun (Class of 2005). She also worked with the vocal coaches David Jones and Patricia McCaffrey in New York as well as Abbie Formansky and John Norris in Berlin. She has won the Tel Aviv Music Academy Singing Competition and received the America Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) "Scholarship for Studies in Israel and abroad". She won prizes at the Cesti singing competition (Innsbrucker Festwochen) and the Liederkranz Lieder competition (NY) and was a recipient of AICF scholarships. In August 2012, she received the second prize at the International singing competition for Baroque opera Pietro Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck.
In spring 2009, Tehila Goldstein gave her very successful debut with William Christie and his ensemble Les Arts Florissants in the academy of Le Jardin des Voix, for which the most promising talents are carefully selected from a long list of newcomers. She performed with this project at the Barbican Centre, Berlin Philharmonie, Cité de la musique Paris, the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Palau de la musica Barcelona, Grand Théâtre de Aix-en-Provence and at the Alice Tully Hall New York. The semi-staged program of arias by Purcell, Monteverdi, Rameau, Rossi, Caccini and Carissimi received great acclaim from critics and audience alike. Also in 2009, she was invited by Dawn Upshaw and Osvaldo Golijov to a training programme at the Carnegie Hall.
Out-of-the-box, expressive and warm timbered, Tehila Goldstein is a versatile and soulful musician with a wide range including both soprano and mezzo-soprano repertoire. Her musical interests and passion begin with early Baroque and folk music and end with pieces written for her unique abilities. She enjoys gliding between the realms of opera, chamber and Lieder repertoire. Her repertoire includes classical opera as well as Baroque, contemporary and Israeli music in particular. Her opera repertoire includes W.A. Mozart's roles, such as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Mademoiselle Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor, Fiordiligi and Despina in Così fan tutte as well as Rossini's Semiramide, George Frideric Handel's Alcina, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Serpina in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva Padrona, Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. In the 2011-2012 season she sang Creusa in Cavalli's La Didone with Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen and the Grand Théâtre Luxembourg.
Tehila Goldstein has appeared in performances throughout Europe, Israel and North America with well-known orchestras including the New York's National Opera Center Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and Israel Chamber Orchestra. Since 2003, she has collaborated closely with Ensemble Meitar, an ensemble specializing in contemporary Jewish and Israeli music.
Some of her musical relationships include Vienna based Ensemble Sferraina (CD Monkeyfish); Pianist Jascha Nemtsov (CD Another Schoenberg; Alberto Hemsi Coplas Sefardies); Prague based orchestra Collegium 1704 and Maestro Václav Luks (Antonio Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade; G.F. Handel's Rinaldo; J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232); I Barocchisti and Maestro Diego Fasolis; Les Arts Florissants and Maestro William Christie (Les Jardin des Voix; La Didone); Composer Sarah Nemtsov (L’Absence at Munich Biennale; Sacrifice at Oper Halle; Verflucht at the Salzburg Taschenoper); Pianist Hinrich Alpers (CD Rudi Stephan, Sonyprize winner at the 2018 Opus Classic); Meitar ensemble; Guitarist Nadav Lev (CD New Strings attached) and many more.
She is currently living in Berlin with her wonderful husband, baritone Tomáš Král (married on June 12, 2015) and their two happy sons. |
