MUSIC

Rice University Shepherd School of Music presents a Guest Artist Recital.  Monday, April 18, at 7:00pm. Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall.

Featuring:
David Goode, (pictured) organ

David Goode was a music scholar at Eton College and then organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge from 1991-4, graduating with a first and the MPhil degree. While there he studied the organ with David Sanger and in Holland with Jacques van Oortmerssen. From 1996-2001 he was Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford and as such toured in Europe, the US, Brazil and Japan and made several recordings. Having won the top prizes awarded at the 1997 St Alban's Interpretation Competition, and the Recital Gold Medal at the 1998 Calgary Competition, he concentrated on a freelance career between 2001 and 2003. From 2003-2005, he combined a busy international career with the post of Organist-in-Residence at First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, home to the world's largest church organ.

Recent years have seen a rare solo Proms recital, concerts around Europe, the US and Australia, and a fruitful partnership with the BBCNOW in several concerti. In 2009 he played the Art of Fugue at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, premiered a new work written for him by John Pickard and played Maxwell Davies' Solstice of Light at the Proms and the City of London Festival. He has an established partnership with the trumpeter Alison Balsom, including a concert in Moscow in March 2009. He is much in demand as a teacher, and will again run the organist's course for the Eton Choral Courses this summer. In recent years he has composed a number of choral and organ works, including a collaboration with the poet Francis Warner; performances include those by the choirs of King's and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge. This season's engagements include the Mathias Concerto in the St David's Festival, and a return to the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Since his first solo CD, 'French Showpieces from King's', recorded while still an undergraduate, his recordings have consistently received critical acclaim. Of his 2004 release from Los Angeles 'The Great Organs of First Church vol 2' The American Organist said 'David Goode shows a fearless command of one of the world's largest church organs. A magisterial performance of Edwin H. Lemare's transcription of Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersinger must be one of the finest renditions of this work on record'. 2004 also saw the first volume of a landmark project to record the complete organ works of Max Reger on 17 CDs ('Finally, there's a set...that competes with Germani's 1960's HMV recordings - I thought the day would never come', Choir and Organ).

Scheduled Program:

J. S. Bach Prelude in E-flat; Couperin Elevation; Franck Chorale No. 3 in A Minor; Duruflé Scherzo, Op. 2; and Vierne Berxeuse and Symphony No. VI: Final.

Guest Artist Lecture
Tuesday, April 19 at 11:00 AM
Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
“Encyclopedias and Legacies: the late music of J. S. Bach”