“Nicholas Goluses is masterly, a musician’s musician.” -American Record Guide
“Nicholas Goluses reached the highest levels of instrumental virtuosity.” – Generalanzeiber (Bonn, Germany)
Nicholas Goluses’s concert tours as soloist, with orchestra, and as chamber musician have taken him across North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and the Far East to critical acclaim. His many New York recitals have taken place in Merkin Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Kaufmann Auditorium at the 92nd Street Y. Goluses has been a featured performer at major festivals throughout the world and has performed as concerto soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New
Jersey Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, American Wind Orchestra, Manhattan Symphony, Louisiana Sinfonietta, Jacksonville Symphony, Eastman Virtuosi, Heidelberg Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Guanajuato Symphony, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia, and the Macon Symphony among others. He enjoys an active duo with flutist Bonita Boyd and has collaborated with the American and Ying String Quartets, violinists Zvi Zeitlin and Juliana Athayde and tenor
Robert Swensen.
Dr. Goluses is Professor of Guitar at the Eastman School of Music, where he is the recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching. Before coming to Eastman he was the first to hold the Andrés Segovia Faculty Chair at Manhattan School of Music where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and was the recipient of the Pablo Casals Award and the Faculty Award of Distinguished Merit. His students have won major awards and competitions throughout the world including Darwin
(Australia), Allentown, GFA, D’Addario, MTNA, Appalachian, Taxco (Mexico), Rantucci, Rosario, Stotsenburg, Paracho (Mexico), Brock (Canada) World Competition, Philadelphia Guitar Society, Lone Star Competition, Louisville Competition, Memphis Competition, Harvard Foote Prize, Hamilton, Belgium, Fulbright, CAPES (Brazil) and a Grammy. In addition, his students hold numerous professorships throughout the US, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, England, Taiwan, and Germany.
Prof. Goluses is in great demand for master classes at leading institutions throughout the world.
Goluses has recorded for Naxos, Albany, BMG, Nueva Venecia, and Linn Records. His recordings have received wide critical and audience acclaim; for his CD of sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: “Played with masterly control of form and substance’; of his CD of late guitar works of Fernando Sor, Fanfare wrote: “Nicholas Goluses plays superlatively” and Classical Guitar (London) wrote “his performance compels the highest praise.” He has recorded two duo CDs with Bonita Boyd for Albany Records (Chronicles of Discovery and Quicksilver), and Night Strings with violist George Taylor. His newest solo CD, “From Afar”, with works by Britten, Schwantner, Ponce, Falla, and Theodorakis was reviewed by American Record Guide, “Goluses is masterly. He is a musician’s musician.” His 2018 CD for Linn Records of the music of Samuel Adler features Maestro Adler’s Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra,
Ports of Call, Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light, and Five Choral Scherzi. His forthcoming album, “Across the Horizon” includes the world premiere recording of Stephen Goss’s “A Concerto of Colours’ for guitar and wind orchestra, Astor Piazzolla’s ‘Cinco Piezas’ for solo guitar, Stélé by Australian composer Phillip Houghton, and the world premiere recording of Bill Dobbins’s ‘Fantasia’ for solo guitar composed for Nicholas Goluses.
Committed to performing new music for the guitar, Goluses has given world première performances of over 100 works, including solo pieces, concertos for guitar and orchestra, as well as chamber music by many of today’s leading composers. His performance editions are published by Alfred Masterworks. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors for the Guitar Foundation of America and has been named Musician of the Year by Mu Phi Epsilon. He is the recipient of the Centennial Distinguished Alumni award from Manhattan School of Music. He has been a Fulbright Specialist Professor since 2019.
