Second Prize winner of the 2011 Primrose Competition, prize winner of the Lionel Tertis International Competition, second prize winner at the 2010 Bashmet International Viola Competition, violist Elias Goldstein has performed all over the world. Important venues in North America include the Kennedy Center, Seattle Symphony’s Benaroya Hall, Place des Arts - Montreal, and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall where he was the first violist to perform all 24 Caprices by Paganini, programming them for his debut in 2016. He regularly performs in Europe – notably at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, George Enescu Philharmonic and Musikiitalo Helsinki, and he can be heard frequently on Classical King FM and WFMT Chicago as well as on the Naxos and Centaur.

Among his notable collaborations include the Pro Arte, Shanghai, Latino Americano and Cavani String Quartets, and recitals with Andrei Ionita and Nobuko Imai, to name but a few. He was a founding member of the Logos quartet while on the faculty at Louisiana State University and performs with pianist Angela Draghicescu, touring extensively in Asia, Europe, Latin America and in the United States. For the upcoming season 2019-2020, Mr Goldstein will be doing a world tour for his upcoming release Melanconico featuring works by Schumann, Clara and Enescu.  

He served recently as the chairperson for the Primrose International Viola Competition in 2018, and as an executive board member for the American Viola Society. Currently, he is associate professor of viola at the University of Delaware.