Jon Goldberg, co-founder and Music Director of the Endymion Ensemble, also co-founded and directed an earlier Endymion Ensemble in New York City. In the 1980s, this ensemble was dedicated to performing works that were seldom heard in professional performances because of their unique size or instrumentation. For four years, the ensemble presented a four-concert series of exciting repertoire in Carnegie Recital Hall, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation. The Endymions received high praise from New York's exacting critics for both the quality of their playing and the creativity of their programming. Guest artists who appeared with Mr. Goldberg and the Endymions included Gilbert Kalish, Paul Sperry, Richard Frisch, Michael Wager and Patricia Routledge.

Mr. Goldberg and the Endymions enjoyed a special relationship with composer William Schuman. They presented the world premiere of Schuman's chamber orchestra suite, Night Journey, at the Empire State Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY. The resultant recording for the Composers Recording, Inc. (CRI) label has been reissued on the CRI American Masters label. In addition, Mr. Goldberg led the Endymions in the world premiere of William Schuman's A Song of Orpheus, transcribed for cello and chamber orchestra by the composer and Mr. Goldberg.

Mr. Goldberg is now honored to be associated with some of the Washington area's finest instrumentalists who desire to continue the Endymion tradition and name.

Earlier guest conducting engagements included appearances with El Paso Pro-Musica, El Paso, TX, The Shelby Symphony Orchestra, Memphis, TN, The Zelenka Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Recital Hall, NY, and The Guggenheim Concert Band (formerly the Goldman Band), Lincoln Center, NY. Mr. Goldberg holds music degrees from North Texas State University and The Manhattan School of Music. He spent two summers studying conducting at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, on a Leonard Bernstein fellowship. He also studied conducting with Carlo Faria and music theory with Marie Powers at the Mannes School of Music.