Background
Goode, Richard Stephen was born on June 1, 1943 in Bronx, New York, United States.
Goode, Richard Stephen was born on June 1, 1943 in Bronx, New York, United States.
He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, Nadia Reisenberg at Mannes College The New School for Music (where he currently is a faculty member), and Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He has made many recordings, including Mozart Concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the music of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Bach. Goode also was the first American-born pianist to record the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. He regularly appears at the world"s leading venues with highly acclaimed orchestras.
With Mitsuko Uchida, he is Company-Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival.
He has premiered works written for him by Carlos Chávez, George Perle, Robert Helps, and others Goode is married to violinist Marcia Weinfeld.
A literary portrait of Richard Goode is in David Blum"s book, Quintet: Five Journeys toward Musical Fulfillment (Cornell University Press, 1999). lieutenant originally appeared as an article in the 29 June 1992 issue of The New Yorker.
Member Chamber Music Society Lincoln Center (founding).