Marina Goldin received her M.A. in Music in 1983 from the world-famous Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Russia. Marina began her career as a piano, theory, and ear-training teacher, a rehearsal pianist for the Ballet School, and a freelance writer on music education and Jewish music. "Post-perestroyka" Russian musicologists give Marina credit for being "the first modern author who after long decades of complete silence re-started studies of Jewish music in Russia, back in early 1980's."

After arriving in the United States in 1990, she lived in Brooklyn. She lectured on Jewish music, accompanied choir, taught music at high school and a day care center, and maintained a piano studio of 30+ students.

Her life-long teaching of both piano and ear-training, as well as early childhood music, resulted in a special interest in teaching piano to young beginners. Additionally to her own teaching, Goldin is the author of many articles on music education and musical development. Her article on music education in Russia was published in The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, in 1993. In 2001, she was invited to the National Music Teachers Conference in Washington with the paper "The Reverse Approach for Teaching Piano Beginners to Read Music: Bringing the Ear Back into the Process." In 2002, Marina delivered a paper "MUSIKGARTEN: Why and How We Teach Music to Young Children" at the 13th International Children's Musical Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mrs. Goldin was invited as a panelist at the Early Childhood Panel, discussing transition from preschool music classes to traditional piano lessons at the State Conference of the NJ Music Teachers Association (2006) and as a judge for Spring Piano Auditions of Music Educators Association (2007).

In 2008, Mrs. Goldin presented a paper "Basics Before Methods." at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference "Back to Basics" (Dallas, 2008).
Marina Goldin is a featured member of the Biltmore Who's Who Registry of Executives and Professionals (2009).
She resides in Livingston with her husband and the youngest of their three children.

• Article in New Jersey Jewish News on Marina Goldin's involvement in the "Jewish underground" in St. Petersburg [English]
• Marina Goldin's memoir on her studies of Jewish music in the 1980's [Russian]
• To reach Russians, we need a tailored approach - M. Goldin's article in NJJN 4/29/2010