October 13, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sevan Melikyan, Dir. of P.R., 817.738.6536
CLIBURN AT THE BASS PRESENTS GREAT AMERICAN PIANIST RICHARD GOODE
IN RECITAL
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, OCTOBER 13, 2008--Cliburn at the Bass
presents pianist Richard Goode in recital, Tuesday, October 28 at
7:30 p.m. in Bass Performance Hall. The Times (London) has
described his performances as possessing "staggering virtuosity and
musical insight."
Mr. Goode will perform a varied program, featuring works by J.S.
Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin. (Please see complete program
below.)
Performances with major orchestras, recitals in the world's
music capitals, and acclaimed recordings have earned Richard Goode
a large and devoted following. A native New Yorker, Mr. Goode has
received the Avery Fisher Award and is a Grammy Award winner.
Mr. Goode's interpretations invariably unleash the energy of a
work in striking, surprising ways, and have been described as
combining grandness with humility. His ability to enter and
brightly illuminate the world of any composer inspired one critic
at the Orange County Register to remark, "You'd swear the composer
himself was at the keyboard, expressing musical thoughts that had
just come into his head."
Prior to Mr. Goode's performance, there will be a Cliburn
Conversations presentation hosted by Dr. Carol Reynolds at 6:30
p.m. in Bass Hall's Green Room. Cliburn Conversations is free to
all ticket holders and is designed to provide insightful
information about the evening's program.
TICKETS AND INFORMATION: Single tickets range from $15 to
$90.
Tickets are available onli ne or by calling 817.335.9000. More
information is available at www.cliburn.org.
Cliburn at the Bass is part of the Cliburn Concerts series,
which is widely regarded as the foremost classical performance
series in the region. It features the world's leading recitalists,
ensembles, and rising stars. Cliburn Concerts is presented in three
venues: Bass Performance Hall, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of the Van Cliburn
Foundation. American Airlines, Bank of America, City of Fort Worth,
Eastman Kodak Company, JPMorgan Chase, Star-Telegram, Steinway
& Sons, and XTO Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors,
and Clear Channel Communications and RadioShack Corporation are the
Cliburn's Corporate Sponsors. Official Sponsors are the Arts
Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County, the Beaumont Foundation
of America, The Burnett Foundation, and the Sid W. Richardson
Foundation. Star-Telegram is the principal media partner and WRR
101.1 FM is the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
RICHARD GOODE
Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of great
emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, and has been
acknowledged worldwide as one of today's leading interpreters of
Classical and Romantic music. 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."
This season, Mr. Goode will give recitals at New York's Carnegie
Hall, in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Portland (Oregon), at the
Krannert Center of the University of Illinois, Cal Performances in
Berkeley, in Kansas City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Orchestral engagements will
include the Bayerische Staatsorchester Munich with Kent Nagano, the
Boston Symphony with Herbert Blomstedt, the London Symphony under
Sir Colin Davis, the St. Louis Symphony with David Robertson, and
the Tonhalle Orchester in Zurich.
In 2007-2008, Mr. Goode performed and curated a multi-event
residency at the South Bank Centre in London as that year's artist-
in-residence. Other season highlights included recitals in Berlin,
Paris, Milan, Toronto, Berkeley, Chicago, New York, and
Philadelphia. His orchestral appearances included the Boston
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine at Tanglewood,
the Concertgebouw Orchestra with Ivan Fisher, the London
Philharmonic with Kurt Masur, the New York Philharmonic with Sir
Colin Davis, and the San Francisco Symphony with Alan Gilbert.
Following his "engrossing" (New York Times) eight-event Carnegie
Hall Perspectives series in 2005-2006, Mr. Goode was invited to
hold master classes at the City's three leading
conservatories--Juilliard, Manhattan, and Mannes--and to give two
illustrated talks on his Perspectives repertoire at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the 2006-2007 season, he was honored
for his contributions to music with the first ever Jean Gimbel Lane
Prize in Piano Performance, which culminates in a residency at
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois this year and
last.
In addition to his most recent release of Mozart solo works, Mr.
Goode has made more than two dozen recordings, including Mozart
concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; the complete partitas
by J.S. Bach; and solo and chamber works by Brahms, Busoni, Chopin,
Schubert, Schumann, and George Perle. The recordings of Mozart
concertos received broad critical acclaim, including many "Best of
the Year" nominations and awards. His recording of the Brahms
sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman won a Grammy Award. Mr.
Goode's recent recording of the Beethoven concertos with Ivan
Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be released in
2008 by Nonesuch, which also released his historic recordings of
the complete Beethoven sonatas.
A native of New York, Richard 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 won
many prizes, including the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize
in the Clara Haskil Competition, and the Avery Fisher Prize. Mr.
Goode serves with Mitsuko Uchida as co-artistic director of the
Marlboro Music School and Festival in Marlboro, Vermont. He and his
wife, violinist Marcia Weinfeld, reside in New York City.
For more information, please visit www.franksalomon.com.
PROGRAM
BACH
Prelude and Fugue in C major from
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. II, BWV 870
French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
MOZART
Rondo in A minor, K. 511
CHOPIN
Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
SCHUBERT
Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960
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