Beth Goldstein-McKee brings her extensive performing and teaching experience to her work with students and teachers at institutes and workshops across the United States. A registered Suzuki Association of the Americas Cello Teacher Trainer, she was guest faculty at the 16th World Convention in Matsumoto, Japan and at the 24th International Suzuki Festival in Lima, Peru. Presently, Ms. Goldstein-McKee teaches in Western Pennsylvania at Hope Academy of Music and the Arts in Pittsburgh, at Arts and Education at the Hoyt in New Castle, and in her private studio in New Wilmington. She is member of the SAA Cello Committee and has served on the Board of Directors of the SAA, as Cello Coordinator for the 2016 SAA Conference, and she has been a presenter at the American String Teachers Association and the SAA conferences.
Ms. Goldstein-McKee maintained thriving studios on the west coast for over thirty years, first in Berkeley, CA and then in Ashland, OR. In addition, in Ashland, OR, Ms. Goldstein-McKee coached cello sectionals and chamber music for the Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, and played with the Rogue Valley Symphony, Rogue Opera, and in chamber orchestras. In California, she was also on the faculty of Holy Names College’s Suzuki Program and the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
The cellist in several new music ensembles in Boston, NYC, and London, England, Ms. Goldstein-McKee received the National Endowment for the Humanities Youth Grant to bring contemporary classical music to new audiences. A native of NYC, she graduated from Brandeis University and trained as a teacher of the Suzuki Method at the School for Strings, NYC.