A native of New York, pianist Richard Goode has been hailed for music making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness. His ability to enter and illuminate the different worlds of each composer he plays has inspired one critic to remark, "You'd swear the composer himself was at the keyboard, expressing musical thoughts that had just come into his head."

During the 2005-2006 season, Carnegie Hall will feature Richard Goode in an expansive eight event Carnegie Perspective. He will perform piano concerti with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fisher, his first all-Beethoven recital since the early '90's, four chamber music concerts in Zankel Hall with distinguished colleagues such as Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Jeffrey Kahane, Matthew Polenzani, Brentano String Quartet, and Pomerium, a lecture / demo in Weill Hall, as well as two talks / demos at the Met Museum.

In addition, Goode will give recitals in London, Brussels, Barcelona, Zurich, Madrid, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. His collaboration with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fisher continues with a tour this fall that will complete a cycle of the Beethoven concerti at Wigmore Hall. In the winter of 2006, he will perform with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Bernard Haitink as well as a European tour with the SWR Freiburg Orchestra. The 2004-2005 season saw an addition to Mr. Goode's extensive discography with the release of his recording of Mozart sonatas as well as recitals in major music capitols and festivals in Europe and in the United States.

Mr. Goode studied 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 been serving with Mitsuko Uchida as co-Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival since 2000, and resides in New York with his wife, Marcia.