Chason Goldschmitz

Composer, arranger, producer,
artistic administrator

Chason Goldschmitz is an artistic administrator, producer, composer, and arranger, and Executive Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic.

Performers of arrangements and orchestrations by Goldschmitz include soprano Renée Fleming; pianist Inon Barnatan; conductors Marin Alsop and JoAnn Falletta; the Baltimore, Houston, North Carolina, and Palm Beach Symphonies; the Buffalo Philharmonic; the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa); L'Orchestre des Nations (Geneva); and the Kennedy Center Honors. His original compositions have been commissioned by venues such as 92NY and been performed by ensembles including the Juilliard Orchestra and the Daedalus String Quartet.

Goldschmitz joined the NEPA Philharmonic in November 2024 after previously serving as Director of Production, Music, and Arts & Health for world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming. In this role, he produced and supervised logistics for concerts, large-scale summits, and other public events, and served as producer and production engineer for Ms. Fleming’s multimedia events, including “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene” performances in collaboration with National Geographic. Goldschmitz also coordinated arts and health research, policy, and funding initiatives on behalf of the Renée Fleming Foundation, in partnership with a diverse array of governmental partners and performing arts, healthcare, education, and community organizations — including the Kennedy Center, LA Opera, Johns Hopkins University, the Aspen Institute, Los Angeles County, the National Institutes of Health, and the World Health Organization. 

Goldschmitz completed a Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University in December 2024, and participated in the League of American Orchestra’s 2024 Essentials of Orchestra Management program. He previously received a Master’s of Music in Music Composition from The Juilliard School, where he co-founded the school’s first contemporary opera program. Goldschmitz also received a Bachelor’s in Environmental Science at Columbia University under the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange program and a 3-year accelerated graduation track, and conducted science research in neuroscience and geochemistry at the Columbia University Medical Center and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He has been a featured composer on classical radio stations WFMT (Chicago), WWFM (Princeton, NJ), and Polskie Radio II (Warsaw, Poland), as well as on NPR’s From the Top!, and has given guest lectures in music composition at Chopin University (Warsaw, Poland) and the American Harp Society National Conference.