Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following. In an extensive profile in The New Yorker, David Blum wrote: “What one remembers most from Goode’s playing is not its beauty—exceptional as it is—but his way of coming to grips with the composer’s central thought, so that a work tends to make sense beyond one’s previous perception of it…. The spontaneous formulating process of the creator [becomes] tangible in the concert hall.” According to The New York Times, “It is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight, subtly or otherwise, into the works he played or about pianism itself.”
From State College, PA, soprano Sarah Shafer studies in the opera program at the Curtis Institute of Music with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. She graduated from the voice program at Curtis with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2010. Shafer's engagements during the 2011-12 season included her professional operatic debut in the role of Barbarina and the cover role of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival, and soprano soloist in Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Curtis On Tour in China and South Korea. She will make her debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia singing Papagena in Die Zauberflöte in 2013. Shafer recently attended the Mozart and Handel residency as part of the Académie européenne de musique in Aix-en-Provence, France. She spent the past two summers as a resident artist at the Marlboro Music Festival, where she worked with Benita Valente, Martin Isepp and Richard Goode.
Peoples' Symphony Concerts
Founded 1900
Richard Goode, piano
with Sarah Shafer, soprano
Where: Town Hall
Series: Festival Series - purchase series tickets
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Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following. In an extensive profile in The New Yorker, David Blum wrote: “What one remembers most from Goode’s playing is not its beauty—exceptional as it is—but his way of coming to grips with the composer’s central thought, so that a work tends to make sense beyond one’s previous perception of it…. The spontaneous formulating process of the creator [becomes] tangible in the concert hall.” According to The New York Times, “It is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight, subtly or otherwise, into the works he played or about pianism itself.”
From State College, PA, soprano Sarah Shafer studies in the opera program at the Curtis Institute of Music with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. She graduated from the voice program at Curtis with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2010. Shafer's engagements during the 2011-12 season included her professional operatic debut in the role of Barbarina and the cover role of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival, and soprano soloist in Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Curtis On Tour in China and South Korea. She will make her debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia singing Papagena in Die Zauberflöte in 2013. Shafer recently attended the Mozart and Handel residency as part of the Académie européenne de musique in Aix-en-Provence, France. She spent the past two summers as a resident artist at the Marlboro Music Festival, where she worked with Benita Valente, Martin Isepp and Richard Goode.