Grammy award-winning pianist Richard Goode is going to be the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s newest artistic partner for the 2025-26 season, SPCO announced mid-October.

Goode joins British Baroque specialist Richard Egarr, South African cellist Abel Selaocoe, Hungarian conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy and German violist Tabea Zimmermann for SPCO’s 66th season. SPCO presents around 80 shows in a typical season, from September to June.

Richard Goode (Steve Riskind)

“It will be such a great pleasure to work again with the SPCO,” Goode said in a news release. “As well as being splendid players, they are truly uncanny listeners, who respond so sensitively to every nuance that I feel we are breathing together.”

The New York native sold out three performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Piano Concertos Nos. 18 and 23” for SPCO this past May at the Ordway. Goode is renowned for his interpretations of Classical and Romantic music, according to SPCO. Additionally, Goode teaches masterclasses and exclusively records performances for Nonsuch Records.

Goode was the first American-born pianist to record the complete collection of Beethoven’s sonatas — a ten-CD set. The recordings were nominated for a Grammy in 2009. In 1983, Goode won the Grammy for best chamber music performance for his recording of “Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120” with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. Goode has four other previous nominations.

“We are so excited that Richard Goode will join the SPCO’s extraordinary roster of Artistic Partners,” said Managing Director and President Jon Limbacher. “He is simply one of the greatest pianists of his time. We are so pleased that our audience will be able to experience more of his amazing artistry.”

Prior to joining the artistic team at SPCO, Goode was co-artistic director at Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont from 1999 through 2013. In fall 2021, Goode joined the Peabody Conservatory as Distinguished Artist Faculty.

Tickets for each show through SPCO can be as low as $15. With a membership, a monthly fee of $5 for first-time members can get you tickets to unlimited concerts.

SPCO also has a free concert library, making concert audios and recordings accessible to everyone.

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