Dave Golden

Dave Golden, born January 23, 1979, is a musician and a Fulbright Scholar. His plays stringed instruments, composes and produces music, including jazz, classical and folk. He also works as a music supervisor and music editor for film.

Early life

He is the son of June (nee Tauber) and Stephen Arthur Ochs Golden (born 1947). His father was a lawyer in Tucson and the grandson of Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times.

Jazz Years, 1996-97

Golden's first noteworthy work was in 1996, playing upright bass in a New York City-based jazz sextet with Charlie Looker and Max Bernstein. They gained recognition from Downbeat Magazine and were launched on a European tour, at the behest of the organizers of the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival, where they played five performances. The group mixed Golden and Looker's avant garde compositions alongside standards and lesser-known elements of the jazz canon.

Golden left the music world in 1997 and worked a job at a Finnish paper mill before returning to the US. He earned a degree from Williams College and while there he joined the National Ski Patrol and started a jazz trio with Leehom Wang.