DAVID GOODE
David Goode is Organist and Head of Keyboard at Eton College, where he presides over a unique collection of historic instruments and teaches some of the UK's most talented young organists; he combines this with a concert career that takes him to all parts of the world.
Born in the UK in 1971, he was a music scholar at Eton College and then organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge from 1991-4, graduating with top honours. While there he studied the organ with David Sanger and Jacques van Oortmerssen. From 1996-2001 he was Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford and as such toured in Europe, the US, Brazil and Japan, and made several recordings. Having won the top prizes awarded at the 1997 St. Alban’s Interpretation Competition, and the Recital Gold Medal at the 1998 Calgary Competition, he concentrated on a free-lance career between 2001 and 2003. In 2003 he moved to Los Angeles, where he combined a busy international schedule with the post of Organist-in-Residence at First Congregational Church, home to the world’s largest church organ.
In recent years, he has appeared as a soloist at many of the UK’s leading venues (such as the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and Symphony Hall), as well as playing across Europe, Canada, South Africa, S. Korea, Australia and most recently at Singapore’s Esplanade Hall. In 2006 he is a featured artist in the ‘Rising Stars’ series, with concerts in major venues across Europe, and will visit Australia in August. He has toured the US extensively since 1998, including several features on the popular ‘Pipedreams’ radio programme, and in November 2002 was Visiting Professor at William Jewell College in Missouri. Performances in 2003-4 included appearances in the new Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Master Chorale and the LA Philharmonic. Amongst a repertoire stretching from mediaeval and Renaissance music, he is best known for his performances of large-scale Romantic works, but has also played works by several dozen contemporary composers. His performance of one such, Francis Pott’s Christus, was described by the London Times as ‘a stupendous achievement.’
Since his first solo CD, French Showpieces from King’s, recorded while still an undergraduate, his recordings have consistently received critical acclaim. Last year he released The Great Organs of First Church, Vol. 2 from Los Angeles, plus the first volume of a landmark project to record the complete organ works of Max Reger on 17 CDs (‘Finally, there’s a set….that competes with Germani’s 1960’s HMV recordings - I thought the day would never come’ Choir and Organ). In December 2005, he recorded the BBC Music cover CD from Eton College, A Bach Christmas.
‘A performer of tremendous resource, enthralling and captivating his audience with daunting programmes exectuted with uncompromising skill’ (Royal Festival Hall recital, December 2002, Musical Opinion)
‘Everyone was put in the shade by the stupendous Albert Hall organ, played with immense passion and brio by David Goode’ (Glagolitic Mass at the Proms, July 2004, Daily Telegraph)
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Engagements: 2007
4th March Bridgewater Hall Manchester
8th April (Easter Sunday) 17.30 recital at King's College, Cambridge
10-13th April guest tutor at Edinburgh Organ Academy
8th August Sibelius Hall, Lahti Organ Festival, Finland
15th September St. Lawrence Centre and St. Mary's Church, South Walsham
2008
26th April 2008 St Peter’s Church (at 17.30) St Albans International Organ Festival
Monteverdi Vespers recording Easter 2008 with Southern Sinfonia
May 2008 programme with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
5th July 2008 St Mary's Church, Longdon, Tewkesbury
30th June 2008 Gewandhaus, Leipzig
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Recent (2004, 2005 & 2006) engagements
July 12th 2004, Recital at Fotheringay Church (Oundle International Festival); July 28, Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms: Janacek's Glagolictic Mass, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Masur; 12th August, Recital at St Paul's Cathedral; 16th August, Concert at the Usher Hall Edinburgh (part of International Festival); 1st December, St Botolph's London Recital and workshop day; 5th December, Concert at the First Congregational Church Los Angeles; 12th December, Concert at the Disney Hall Los Angeles, with the LA Philharmonic Brass; 8th April Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore; Tuesday 24th May Recital at Symphony Hall Birmingham; 24th-31st July Eton Choral Course; 31st July - 7th August Eton Organ Academy; 15th January 2006 Symphony Hall, Birmingham; 26th March Kolner Philharmonie; 30th March Reading Town Hall; 9th April Megaron Athens; 11th April The Konserthuset of Stockholm; 20th April Windsor Festival; 7th May First Congregational Church Los Angeles; 29th May Wiener Konzerthaus; 4th June Cité de la musique, Paris; 15th July Gloucester Cathedral; 8th July St James the Greater Leicester; 28th July Spafest, Tunbridge Wells; 6th August BBC Prom (solo); 7th-26th August Australian Tour; 2nd September St George's Windsor; 20th September 'Discovering Music' for BBC Radio 3, St. David’s Hall Cardiff; 15th October East Bergholt Church (Stour Valley Arts & Music); 24th November, St David's Hall, Cardiff, recital; 10th December Hamburg, Musikhalle Grosser Saal.
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[Email contact (Val Fancourt) click here]
LINK TO DAVID'S OWN WEBSITE HERE
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[For U.S. engagements only, please contact: Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc., 2385 Fenwood Rd. Cleveland OH 44118]
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