Principal Guest Conductor

 

ROY GOODMAN

Principal Guest Conductor

 

Roy Goodman achieved international fame as a chorister with the choir of King’s College Cambridge - as the 'high C' soloist in Allegri’s Miserere (Decca 1963). In 1970 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and after completing his violin studies worked primarily in Europe as a principal violinist - playing as concertmaster or soloist with many important conductors, particularly of early music.

 

Goodman is well known for his work as director and founder of the Brandenburg Consort, as co-director/founder of The Parley of Instruments, co-founder of the London Handel Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Hanover Band, Music Director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, the first Principal Conductor of Umeå Symphony Orchestra & Norrlands Opera Sweden and as the first Principal Conductor of Holland Symfonia. During the 1980's he conducted for CD with the Hanover Band the first ever performances on historic instruments of the complete symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Weber, as well as 14 symphonies by Mendelssohn and 60 symphonies by Haydn. In addition to directing more than forty world premières of contemporary music - many from the 21st century - he has conducted over 120 CDs (several receiving rosettes in the Penguin CD Guide). His CD recordings of the complete Schumann symphonies for BMG/RCA Red Seal have received outstanding critical praise worldwide.

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 Figaro. Concerts in 2007-9 include the Hallé in Manchester, RSNO in Glasgow and Residentie Orchestra in the Hague, WDR Cologne, NDR Hannover and SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestras, Tampere and Bergen Philharmonics, Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, the English, Geneva, Manitoba, Uppsala and Swedish Chamber Orchestras, Grand Teton Festival Orchestra Wyoming and West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth. Roy Goodman is an honorary Doctor of Music (University of Hull) and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music (London), and in 2009 was appointed Artistic Partner with the Västerås Sinfonietta, Sweden.

Roy Goodman was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 2008.

 

For more information please visit Roy's website: www.roygoodman.com