The Program

Beethoven:  Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 109
Beethoven:  Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Beethoven:  Bagatelles, Op. 119
Beethoven:  Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111

The Artist

A New York native, Richard Goode studied with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His numerous awards over the years include first prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize and a Grammy Award with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. During the 1987-88 season Mr. Goode performed the entire Beethoven sonata cycle at New York's 92nd Street Y to great acclaim. Nearly twenty years after that landmark performance, Mr. Goode is widely regarded as the heir to the mantle of his teacher Rudolf Serkin in the Mozart-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms repertory.

Richard Goode is co-artistic director, with Mitsuko Uchida, of the Marlboro Music School and Festival and also teaches at the Mannes College of Music.  An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, he released in 1993 a 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas that was nominated for a Grammy Award. Richard Goode's other recent collaborations include the completion of a cycle of the complete Beethoven concerti at London's Barbican Centre (with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fisher) and performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Bernard Haitink and a European tour with the SWR Freiburg Orchestra.