Bram Goldstein, founding member of the internationally acclaimed Hausmann Quartet, was born and raised in Montreal, where he began his early studies with Eleonora Turovsky. He continued his studies under the tutelage of Yehonatan Berick at McGill University, and later as a graduate student at the Longy School of Music under Malcolm Lowe and Laura Bossert. Festival appearances include Aspen, Music@Menlo, Great Lakes Chamber Music, Blossom, Norfolk, Montreal Chamber Music, La Jolla Summerfest, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar and the Emerson Quartet International Chamber Music Festival at Stony Brook.

Mr. Goldstein has over twenty years of teaching experience, with a strength for enhancing the skills of established violin students. When not playing string quartets or teaching students, Mr. Goldstein enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, Jonah and Ezra, as well as playing tennis and baking bread.