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Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of the music of Beethoven. In regular performances with major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and acclaimed recordings, he has won a large and devoted following. His performances of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Janacek, and others have received equal accolades.
A native of New York, Goode studied with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His numerous prizes over the years include the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy Award with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. His first public traversal of the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas at New York’s 92nd Street Y in 1987-88 was hailed by the New York Times as "among the season’s most important and memorable events." More recently he performed the cycle in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1994 and 1995.
In recent seasons, Goode has appeared with all the major American orchestras (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland). In Europe, he has appeared with the Orchestre de Paris, Zurich Tonhalle Orchester, Berlin Radio Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Bamberg Symphony, Hamburg Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Orchestre National de Toulouse and on tours of Germany and the UK with the Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer. He appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and BBC Proms, and recital engagements have included Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Paris’ Cité de la Musique and Theatre de Champs-Elysées, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Salzburg Festival, Klavierfest am Ruhr, Piano aux Jacobins, Bad Kissingen, Brussels, Lisbon, London’s Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and in Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.
In August 2002 Goode had a five-concert residency at the Edinburgh International Festival including concerto performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and three contrasting recitals. He will also appear at the BBC Proms and in recital at major piano festivals in Toulouse, the Ruhr and La Roque d'Antheron. Engagements in the 2002/2003 season include performances with the London Philharmonic/Belohlavek, Rotterdam Philharmonic/Vonk, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich/ Zinman, New York Philharmonic/Colin Davis and San Francisco Symphony/Peter Oundjian. Goode will be giving recitals across the US and Europe including the South Bank Centre in London, Milan, Munich, Venice, Nurnberg, at the Bergen Festival and Symphony Hall Birmingham.
An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concerti. In 1993, Nonesuch released a 10-CD set of his complete Beethoven Sonata cycle, the first-ever by an American pianist. The Grammy-nominated set met with widespread critical acclaim and was chosen for the 1995 Gramophone Good CD Guide. Other recording highlights include a duo recording with Dawn Upshaw, and a series of Mozart piano concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. His most recent recital discs are of the music of Chopin, and Bach Partitas.
Richard Goode is co-Artistic Director with Mitsuko Uchida of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont (USA).
October 2002
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