Nigel Goldberg

Nigel Goldberg started learning the violin with the well known Leeds violin teacher, Eta Cohen. His studies were sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and during that time he won the prize for the most outstanding performance at the National Festival of Music for Youth on three successive occasions.

Soon after gaining his A.R.C.M. diploma at seventeen he won the Corporation of London Stringed Instruments Scholarship to study with Yfrah Neaman. An award from the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund enabled him to continue his studies with Emanuel Hurwitz. In October 1981 the Worshipful Company of Musicians promoted Nigel Goldberg’s London debut and the following month he won the third competition for Northern Musicians.

Since that time, besides studying with Artur Balsam, Denis Matthews and Hans Keller, Nigel Goldberg has been in much demand as a leader and chamber musician playing in many festivals and directing such groups as the London Gala Soloists and Versus Ensemble in Spain. He is also involved in films and television as a musical consultant and performer, this work taking him to Europe and the United States of America.

During all that time however, his constant and abiding passion has been working with young children. From being assistant to his first teacher, Eta Cohen in Leeds to his position as Artistic Director of Youth Music Centre for 21 years, he has always held teaching posts at institutions such as Watford School of Music, Highgate Public School, the Latymer School, Edmonton. Currently, besides his private teaching practice in North London he is a professor at the Junior Guildhall School of Music.