Shriver Hall Concert Series Concludes Season with Pianist Richard Goode on June 1

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SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES 
CONCLUDES 2024-25 SEASON WITH
PIANIST RICHARD GOODE

Richard Goode Performs Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations
Plus Six Bagatelles from the Composer’s 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119 and
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Sunday, June 1, 2025 at Shriver Hall

“A total performance that was a joy in the ear, a nourishment for the mind and
an uplift for the spirit.” — The Los Angeles Times

www.ShriverConcerts.org

Baltimore, MD (April 23, 2025) — Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) — Baltimore’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists — wraps up its 2024-25 season with esteemed pianist Richard Goode on June 1st, 2025 at 5:30 PM at Shriver Hall.

Richard Goode has set an international standard of musicianship for decades with his "unfailingly beautiful tone, effortless technical command, interpretive insight and total emotional commitment to the music" (The Washington Post). A lauded performer of Classical and Romantic repertoire, his ninth performance with Shriver Hall Concert Series will include the vast emotional landscape of Beethoven’s magnificent Diabelli Variations (Op. 120) – which he took upon himself to learn during the Covid-19 lockdown – as well as Six Bagatelles from the composer’s 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119 and Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109.

An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. Other recording highlights include numerous Mozart piano concerti with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Beethoven piano concerti with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

Shriver Hall Concert Series’ upcoming 60th anniversary and 2025-26 season builds on the organization’s legacy of unforgettable musical experiences in the intimacy of Shriver Hall with a vibrant lineup of programs featuring enduring masterworks and fresh perspectives, from Bach to Beethoven to Billy Childs. The Subscription Series features performances by: Sphinx Virtuosi and cellist Sterling Elliott; violinist Tessa Lark, cellist Joshua Roman, and double bassist Edgar Meyer; pianist Emanuel Ax; pianist Angela Hewitt; Isidore String Quartet and pianist Jeremy Denk; soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware; and cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Connie Shih. SHCS’s free Discovery Series, which spotlights emerging artists on the classical music scene, includes recitals by Abeo String Quartet, guitarist David Manzanares-Salguero (winner of the 2025 Yale Gordon Competition), and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Details about SHCS’ 60th anniversary season can be found at ShriverConcerts.org.

Shriver Hall Concert Series’ season is made possible through generous support from the Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore County Commission for Arts & Sciences, and Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.

Concert Information
Richard Goode, piano
Sunday, June 1st, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Shriver Hall | 3400 N. Charles Street | Baltimore, MD 21218
Tickets: $46 Single Tickets, $10 Students
Link: shriverconcerts.org/goode

BEETHOVEN: Six Bagatelles from Op. 119
BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
BEETHOVEN: Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120

A Pre-Concert Talk takes place at 4:30 pm in Shriver Hall with WBJC's Jonathan Palevsky.

The Zarelda Fambrough Memorial Concert

About Richard Goode
Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as a leading interpreter of Classical and Romantic music. In performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and through his acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following.

Gramophone magazine recently captured the essence of what makes Richard Goode such an original and compelling artist: “Every time we hear him, he impresses us as better than we remembered, surprising us, surpassing our expectations and communicating perceptions that stay in the mind.”

One of today’s most revered recitalists, Richard Goode is a favorite of audiences in Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Houston, Portland, and Chicago and at numerous colleges and universities around the country. In Europe, annual appearances at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Edinburgh Festival, in Berlin, and throughout Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the U.K. are always highlights. His masterclasses, in person or online, are hailed as truly memorable events.

In 2022-23, thirty years after his historic complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle at New York’s 92nd Street Y and his Grammy nominated recording, Richard Goode felt ready to tackle Beethoven’s daunting Diabelli Variations. His interpretation has been heard in New York, London, Philadelphia, Tippet Rise, Detroit, Toronto and St. Paul. Last season, Goode returned to the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s piano concertos, and the current season brings returns to Wigmore Hall, Chipping Campden Music Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Shriver Hall Concert Series, 92nd Street Y, and Gilmore Piano Festival, among others.

In recent years, Richard Goode performed in a documentary celebrating the Mostly Mozart Festival’s 50th anniversary. He toured in the U.S. with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer, and appeared with the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and in Europe with the London, Oslo and BBC philharmonics. He was featured by Carnegie Hall in a season-long Artist Perspective residency. For the first time in his career, Goode has been performing the last three Beethoven sonatas in one program, drawing capacity audiences in such cities as New York, London, and Berlin.

An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen albums, ranging from solo and chamber works to Lieder and concertos. His recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer was nominated for a Grammy Award. Other highlights include the Johann Sebastian Bach partitas, a duo recording with Dawn Upshaw, Mozart piano concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Johannes Brahms’s sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, which was recognized with a Grammy Award.

Goode served, together with Mitsuko Uchida, as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Marlboro, VT, from 1999 through 2013. In fall 2021, Goode joined the Peabody Conservatory as Distinguished Artist Faculty. He is married to the violinist Marcia Weinfeld, and when the Goodes are not on tour, they and their collection of some 5,000 volumes live in New York City.

About Shriver Hall Concert Series
Since 1966, Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) has been “Baltimore’s finest importer of classical music talent” (The Baltimore Sun) and the area’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists with a mission to craft performances and educational programs at the highest level of excellence. A 5-time recipient of Baltimore Magazine’s distinction “Best Classical Music” in its annual “Best of Baltimore” issue, the coveted subscription series features many of the world’s most renowned soloists and ensembles, presented in The Johns Hopkins University’s Shriver Hall.

Founded in 1966 by Dr. Ernest Bueding, a pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University, and a group of similarly dedicated music enthusiasts, SHCS set out to make an important contribution to the vitality of an already vibrant city. When flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal walked onto the stage of Shriver Hall for the first concert, more than 1,100 people witnessed the launch of what is now recognized as a remarkable success story: Shriver Hall Concert Series. In the succeeding years, SHCS has presented hundreds of acclaimed and emerging international artists in classical chamber music and recitals and a legacy of important debuts and premieres. In addition, SHCS collaborates with local schools and subsidizes hundreds of student tickets each season.

The list of artists presented by SHCS is remarkable—Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Ewa Podlés, Maurizio Pollini, Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jordi Savall, András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, Janos Starker, Daniil Trifonov, Lynn Harrell, Emmanuel Ax, Alban Berg Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Cleveland Quartet, and Quartetto Italiano, among many others. SHCS also has a history of championing important musicians early in their careers, including Richard Goode, Hilary Hahn, Hélène Grimaud, Dawn Upshaw, Lang Lang, and the Emerson String Quartet. Commissioned composers include Timo Andres, Sebastian Currier, Jonathan Leshnoff, James Lee III, Han Lash, Caroline Shaw, and Nina C. Young.

Designed specifically for the community, SHCS offers the Discovery Series, a series of free concerts presented in venues throughout the region focused on artists emerging on the national and international scene. Artists featured include Narek Hakhnazaryan, Colin Currie, Xavier Foley, Eric Lu, and the Dover Quartet. SHCS also offers the annual Spring Lecture Series, a series of free talks focused on annual topics related to the intersection of music and society and a variety of student programs.

For more information, visit www.shriverconcerts.org.

Image at top of release by Kevin Kinzley   

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