British musicians and baby daughter killed in Swiss plane crash
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Two leading British musicians and their baby daughter have been killed in a plane crash in the Swiss Alps.
The award-winning composer Jonathan Goldstein, his wife, Hannah, a prominent saxophonist, and seven-month-old Saskia were believed to have been on their way to Italy when the plane they were travelling in crashed at the weekend.
Their plane took off from western Switzerland on Sunday morning, bound for Italy, but crashed near the border.
Goldstein started out as a music director and composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, working on productions including the RSC’s Othello, starring Sir Ian McKellen, in 1989, and the National’s Primo, featuring Sir Antony Sher, in 2004.
Both were subsequently filmed by the BBC, and Goldstein’s soundtrack for Primo earned him a nomination for the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards.
After working as a composer and orchestrator for film, TV and advertising, he set up the Goldstein Music Group in 2008. He released his debut classical album, Cyclorama, in 2013.
Marcinowicz performed a solo at the BBC Proms in 2005 while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. She went on to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
