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includes a handbook on Baroque Performance Practice, and The Lawrence
Golan Violin Scale System are both published by Mel Bay Publications. Golan’s
Fantasia for Solo Violin is published by LudwigMasters. His original orchestral
compositions, including Fantasia for Orchestra and Giovanna d'Arco (Joan
of Arc), are available through Notation Central. Golan's book on preparing
musical scores for performance, called Score Study Passes, is published by
Globe Edit.
Lawrence Golan was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 St. Cecilia International
Music Competition in the UK and was also awarded First Prize in four different
categories, both as conductor and composer. In addition, he is a 10-time
winner of ASCAP Awards for the Innovative Programming of Contemporary
Music, 5-time Global Music Award winner, 3-time American Prize winner, 3-time
Downbeat Magazine Award winner, and 2-time Prestige Music Award winner. He
was the Grand Prize Winner of the American Prize in Orchestral Programming
and the First Place winner of the Ictus International Music Competition.
A native of Chicago, Lawrence Golan comes from a musical family. His father,
the late Joseph Golan, was a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for
forty-nine years and Principal Second Violinist for thirty-five of those years.
Lawrence Golan received his Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance and Master
of Music in Violin Performance and Orchestral Conducting from the Indiana
University School of Music and his D.M.A. in Violin Performance and Orchestral
Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1999
he was awarded Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Conducting
Fellowship, and in 2002, Aspen Music Festival’s Conducting Fellowship.
A staunch advocate for music education, Lawrence Golan has been Director
of Orchestral Studies and head of the graduate conducting program at the
University of Denver since 2001. There he has won eight ASCAP Awards for
Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, three Downbeat Magazine
Awards for “Best College Symphony Orchestra,” and The American Prize for
Orchestral Performance – Collegiate Division. His latest honor is the 2021
Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Denver.
Previous positions include Principal Guest Conductor, Bayerische Philharmonie
in Munich, Germany (2022-2024), Music Director, Denver Philharmonic
Orchestra (2013-2024), Resident Conductor, Phoenix Symphony (2006-2010),
founder and Artistic Director, Atlantic Chamber Orchestra (1998-2003), Music
Director, Portland Ballet Company (1997-2013), and Music Director, Southern
Maine Symphony Orchestra (1990-2001). Lawrence and his wife Cecilia, who is
from Buenos Aires, Argentina, have two young children.
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