Richard Goode
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 Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with major orchestras, recitals in
the world's music capitals, and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and
devoted following.
Mr. Goode will be touring nationally and internationally during the 2011-2012 season for
performances with The MET Orchestra led by Fabio Luisi, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with
Gustavo Dudamel, a West Coast tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and for recitals at
Carnegie Hall, as well as in Chicago, Philadelphia, Berkeley, Kansas City, Baltimore,
Detroit, and at universities around the country. In Europe, Mr. Goode will be performing
in major series in Birmingham, Budapest, Genoa, Madrid, and Paris, as well as
throughout the UK.
Mr. Goode was honored for his contributions to music with the first-ever Jean Gimbel Lane
Prize in Piano Performance, which culminated in a two-season residency at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois. In May 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
A native of New York, Mr. Goode studied with Elvira Szigeti and Claude Frank, with Nadia
Reisenberg at Mannes College The New School for Music, and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis
Institute of Music. Among his many prizes are the Young Concert Artists Award, first prize
in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy Award.
Mr. Goode, an exclusive Nonesuch artist, has made more than two-dozen recordings,
including Mozart solo works and concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; the complete
Beethoven piano sonatas; the complete partitas of J. S. Bach; and solo and chamber works of
Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Busoni, and Perle. He is the first American-born
pianist to have recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas; the recording was nominated for a
Grammy Award and universally acclaimed. With soprano Dawn Upshaw, he has recorded Goethe
Lieder of Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf. The four recordings of Mozart
concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra were received with wide critical acclaim; in
addition, his recording of the Brahms sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman won a
Grammy Award. Mr. Goode's first, long-awaited Chopin recording was also named Best of the
Month by Stereo Review.
Over the last seasons, Mr. Goode has appeared with many of the world's greatest
orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Levine, Bernard Haitink,
and Seiji Ozawa; Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach; The Cleveland
Orchestra under David Zinman; San Francisco Symphony under Herbert Blomstedt and Alan
Gilbert; New York Philharmonic with Sir Colin Davis; Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Peter
Oundjian; and St. Louis Symphony under David Robertson. He has also appeared with the
Orchestre de Paris, made his Musikverein debut with the Vienna Symphony, and has been heard
throughout Germany in sold-out concerts with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under
Sir Neville Marriner.
Mr. Goode serves with Mitsuko Uchida as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School
and Festival in Marlboro, Vermont. He is married to violinist Marcia Weinfeld. When the
Goodes are not on tour, they and their collection of some 5,000 volumes live in New York
City.