Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 4 p.m.

Program

Schumann: Kinderszenen, op. 15
Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K. 475
Mozart: Sonata in B-flat, K. 281
Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16

Richard Goode’s music making recently prompted a critic to remark that he’d “swear the composer himself was at the keyboard, expressing musical thoughts that had just come into his head.” The American pianist’s tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness can be heard in recitals, chamber and orchestral collaborations around the world as well as in a series of highly acclaimed Nonesuch recordings including the recent Nonesuch release of the complete Beethoven concerti.

Over the past seasons, Mr. Goode has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt and with the Cleveland Orchestra under Ivan Fischer. Carnegie Hall featured Richard Goode in an eight-event series entitled Perspectives, and Mr. Goode was invited to hold master classes at New York’s three leading conservatories — Juilliard, Manhattan and Mannes —  as well as to give two illustrated talks on his Perspectives repertoire at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His orchestral appearances included the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

A native of New York, Richard Goode studied privately with Elvira Szigeti and Claude Frank, with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. He has won many prizes including the Young Concert Artists Award, the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy Award with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. His remarkable interpretations of Beethoven came to national attention when he played all five concerti with the Baltimore Symphony under David Zinman and when he performed the complete cycle of sonatas at New York’s 92nd Street Y and Kansas City’s Folly Theater. For the New York Times the cycle was among the season’s most important and memorable events. Subsequent performances around the country were similarly triumphant.

Richard Goode has appeared with many of the world’s greatest orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Ozawa, the Chicago Symphony under Eschenbach, the Cleveland Orchestra under Zinman, the San Francisco Symphony under Blomstedt, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester under Ashkenazy, and the BBC Symphony under Belohlavek at the London Proms. He has also appeared with the Orchestre de Paris, toured with Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra, and made his Musikverein debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He 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 the violinist Marcia Weinfeld. When the Goodes are not on tour (with each new city offering the chance to visit a new or favorite bookstore), they and their collection of some 5,000 volumes live in New York City.