Roy Goodman
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Roy Goodman (born 21 January 1951, Guildford, England) is a freelance conductor, violinist and organist. He became internationally famous as the 12-year-old boy treble soloist in the March 1963 recording of Allegri's Miserere with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge under Sir David Willcocks.
Goodman studied at the Royal College of Music, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and Associate of the Royal College of Music. He has also served as Director of Music at the University of Kent in Canterbury and Director of Early Music Studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
As a violinist and concertmaster, he played from 1975 to 1985 under the baton of Ivan Fischer, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Simon Rattle (at Glyndebourne Opera). He was violin soloist with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy. He also played as concertmaster or soloist with Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Rene Jacobs and Ton Koopman.
As a conductor, Roy Goodman is wide ranging in his tastes but is known for his special expertise with early music. He was founder and director of the Brandenburg Consort (1975-2001), co-director of the Parley of Instruments (1979-1986), Principal Conductor of the Hanover Band (1986-1994) and Music Director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (1989-2004). As of now (2006) he is Principal Guest Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and Director Emeritus of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. He has served as Guest Conductor with 100 other orchestras, ensembles, and opera companies. In 2006 he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and returned to San Francisco Opera to conduct a new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
As a conductor Goodman has made over 120 recordings ranging from Monteverdi to Copland. Eighty-two of these recordings were in the active catalog as of 2006.[1] Goodman has also directed more than forty world premières of contemporary music.
Roy Goodman has been called "probably the most active independent free-lance conductor in Europe."[2] On a personal level, he has three children and four grandchildren.[3]
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- ^ http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Namedrill?&name_id=15350&name_role=3
- ^ http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Goodman-Roy.htm
- ^ http://www.roygoodman.com/index.html
