Lisa Goldman served the Beachwood City Schools for 24 years as orchestra director (founder), as the district Fine Arts Subject Coordinator for 13 years and most recently, Fine Arts Resource Specialist. Lisa is currently a supervisor for music education students at Baldwin Wallace University, maintaining a private studio and is working with the Cleveland Center for Suzuki Studies.

Lisa has degrees from Cincinnati Conservatory, Suzuki Training from the Cleveland Institute of Music and graduate studies in Viola/Eurhythmics from Carnegie Mellon University. Lisa previously taught in the Suzuki programs in at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was directed the preparatory orchestras. Lisa was director of the Suzuki program at the Fairmount Fine Arts Center, taught at the Cleveland School of the Arts, String Pedagogy and Violin Classes at Case Western Reserve University (Music Education) and has taught and/or conducted at numerous workshops and clinics. Lisa enjoys performing with a wide variety of venues and has been a violinist with the Cleveland POPS orchestra since 1999.

Lisa has been a clinician, adjudicator and/or speaker at workshops and meetings on a local to national level including ASTA, SAA, The International Suzuki Festival, and OMEA. The 2017 OSTA Teacher of the Year, she has served as an orchestra mentor for MENC and has published over a dozen articles in the area of positive motivation in the American Suzuki Journal. A certified adjudicator for ASATACAP Lisa has served as a judge for solo/ensemble contests, large groups and a variety of additional events. Lisa has mentored numerous student teachers from area Universities and has consulted to the Cleveland POPS Orchestra Education program. Lisa lives in NE Ohio with her husband and 2 cats. She enjoys painting, gardening, and visiting her 3 grown children, a conservationist, musician and an engineer