Goode will play Schumann?s Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), op. 15, as well as Kreisleriana, op. 16, and Chopin?s Nocturne in E major, op. 62, No. 2.
Richard Goode was born in New York in 1943, and began learning piano at the age of six with Elvira Szigeti. He was later a student of Claude Frank, before completing his studies at the Mannes College for Music, where he studied under Karl Ulrich Schnabel among others. He became known primarily as a chamber musician, only taking the stage as a solo performer at the encouragement of friends and colleagues (among them Leonard Bernstein). Although he made a relatively late start to his solo and orchestral career, Goode is regarded as one of the most significant pianists of our time. He has performed in the most prestigious concert halls, among them the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Cité de la Musique and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, London?s Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall, and New York?s Carnegie Hall and 92nd Street Y. Goode has given concerts with leading orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. His recordings have received numerous accolades, including his second CD, on which he plays Bach partitas, which won the title of ?record of the month? from Gramophone Magazine in July 2003. Together with Mitsuko Uchida, Goode is artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in the US state of Vermont.
The concert is the third in ?The Piano ? MVM Concerts? series. Grigory Sokolov, Fazil Say and Gergely Bogányi will also perform this season in the series.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / MUPA
