Richard Goode

In recital, Goode performs every season at London’s Wigmore Hall and in major musical centres across Europe, which in recent seasons have included Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Budapest, Madrid, Stockholm, and he has been a regular performer over the years at the Edinburgh International Festival, Pianos aux Jacobins (Toulouse) and Verbier Festivals.  In the US Goode performs in all the major cities, including Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Over the course of his career, Goode has performed as soloist with most of the major orchestras across the US and Europe including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Tonhalle Zurich, London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin.

Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer was released in 2009 to exceptional critical acclaim, described as “a landmark recording” by the Financial Times and nominated for a Grammy award. His 1993 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and chosen for the Gramophone Good CD Guide and re-released in 2017. Other recording highlights include a series of Bach Partitas, a duo recording with Dawn Upshaw and Mozart piano concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

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. His first public performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas at New York’s 92Y in 1987/8 was hailed by the New York Times as “among the season’s most important and memorable events” and was later performed with great success at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1994 and 1995.

Goode is also a highly respected teacher and mentor of young musicians and holds the position of International Chair of Piano Studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and is on the faculty at Mannes College (New York). He frequently leads masterclasses at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including at the Manhattan School of Music, Verbier Festival Academy, and in the public masterclass series at Wigmore Hall.

Richard Goode was co-Artistic Director with Mitsuko Uchida of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont (USA) from 1999-2013. He is married to the violinist Marcia Weinfeld and they live in New York City.

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