Grammy Award-winning pianist Richard Goode will be the newest artistic partner of the St. Paul for the 2025-26 season, the SPCO announced in 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 the SPCO’s 66th season. The SPCO presents around 80 shows in a typical season, from September to June.

“It will be a great pleasure to work with the SPCO again,” Goode said in a news release. “In addition to being splendid players, they are truly extraordinary listeners who respond so sensitively to every nuance that it feels like we are breathing together.”

The New York native sold out three performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 18 and 23” for the SPCO last May at the Ordway. Goode is renowned for his interpretations of classical and romantic music, according to the SPCO. In addition, Goode teaches master classes and records performances exclusively 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 Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for his recording of Brahms: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120″ with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. Goode has four other previous nominations.

“We are so excited that Richard Goode will be joining SPCO’s extraordinary roster of artistic partners,” said CEO and President Jon Limbacher. “He is simply one of the greatest pianists of his time. We are so excited that our audience will be able to experience more of his amazing talent.”

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

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