Dr.Merryl Goldberg was thesaxophonist and cipher-creator for the KCB quartet that entered the SovietUnion in 1985. She is currently a Professor in the School of Arts at CaliforniaState University San Marcos and Executive Director of Center ARTES (auniversity center dedicated to restoring arts to education). She touredinternationally for 13 years with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and hasrecorded over a dozen CDs with major labels. Dr. Goldberg received herundergraduate degree from New England Conservatory of Music and her Doctoratein Teaching, Curriculum and Learning Environments, from the Harvard GraduateSchool of Education. In 2018 she was awarded the Wang Family Excellence Awardfor Outstanding Faculty Teaching in the California State University (23 campus)systemwide. Merryl serves on the Board of CREATE CA and is Trustee forthe California State Summer School for the Arts. She regularly speaks atnational, statewide, and local conferences on the need and benefits of arts ineducation.
