Potoční 3/128, 16200 Praha 616

Czech Republic

email: pg@patriciagoodson.com

gsm: +420 604 204 446

EDUCATION

MM in piano performance, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Private study with Ellen Mack Senofsky, coaching with Leon Fleisher, Berl Senofsky, and Menahem Pressler

BA with honors, major in music, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Piano Soloist and Chamber Musician - Selected Venues, Festivals, Tours, and Ensembles:

Europe: Stamic Quartet, Moldovan National Philharmonic, US Embassies in Vienna, Belgrade, Prague, and Den Haag, Ciompi Quartet of Duke University (three tours), AGON

Ensemble (South Bank Center, London), Two Days and Two Nights of New Music (Odessa, Ukraine)

Festival of New Music and Baroque (Zaporozhye, Ukraine)

International Percussion Days (Bydgozscz, Poland)

Expozice nové hudby (Brno)

Atelier 90, Třidení, Percussion Plus, Přítomnost, Umělecka Beseda (Prague)

Prague Chamber Philharmonic (PKO)

Philharmonic Hall, Belgrade

Philharmonic Hall, Hradec Králové

South Bohemian Chamber Music Festival US: Bohemian National Hall (New York City)

Bear Valley Music Festival (California)

Poet's Theatre (Cambridge, MA)

Harvard Group for New Music (Cambridge, MA)

Music Now Festival (Eugene, OR)

Carpenter Center (Long Beach, CA)

Solo tours of East Coast

CDS

Vasyl Barvinskiy in Prague - solo and chamber works with Stamic Quartet (Brilliant Classics)

Josef Bohuslav Foerster - Complete Piano Works, 4 CDs, (Brilliant Classics)

Geraldine Mucha - solo and chamber works (Brilliant Classics)

Geraldine Mucha - Piano concerto, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Andreas Sebastien Weiser, conductor (Arco Diva)

Strange Attractors - New Music for Solo Piano (Albany Records)

Ivana Loudová - Music for One (HAMU recordings)

AGON orchestra (guest artist) (Audioego)

Repertoire:

Specializes in contemporary and unusual repertoire, both traditional and contemporary, as well as Czech composers.

Partial list includes J.B. Foerster, Zdeněk Fibich, Josef Suk, Miroslav Pelikán, Jan Kapr, Marek Kopelent, Antonín Dvořák, Bohuslav Martinů, Leoš Janáček, Rosalie Wertheim, Amy Beach, Geraldine Mucha, and Dame Gillian Whitehead.

Dedications/Commissions:

Solo and chamber works written for me by Ivana Loudová, Hanuš Bartoň, Ivo Medek, Tomáš Pálka, Michal Rataj, Petr Pokorný, and others.

Premieres of solo works by Michal Rataj, Ivana Loudová, Miroslav Pudlák, Peter Graham, Robert Kyr, Martin Herman, Tomáš Pálka, Randall Woolf, Věra Čermáková, and many others.

BROADCAST

Radio:

Encore - Writer, researcher and co-host 2001 - 2007

-Monthly radio show about Czech music on Czech Radio's Radio Prague (English language) service.

Czech Radio - Various performances, live and recorded-live

BBC World Service: guest host/performer for arts documentary `Close-up`

BBC World Service 'Music Review' - subject of interview by Natalie Wheen

Television:

`Hudební vizitky`(Musical Visits) and other shows, Czech Republic

Polish National TV, various local US stations

TV Belgrade, Serbia

Social Media: `Sunday Morning Music` - weekly YouTube stream 2021-2022

MUSIC COMPOSITION

'Six Pianos' - dance project, Čimelice, Czech Republic July, 2000

'Jonáš' - music for installation by artist Barbara Benish at Palmovka Synagogue, Prague1998

General Computer, Cambridge, MA 1981 - 1983

Composer and Sound Effects designer - created or transcribed music and sound effects for over 35 Atari home video games.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

New York University in Prague, Professor of Piano, 2005 - present

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Coach/Instructor, 'Chamber Music at Mather' program 1985 - 1991

- auditioned and organized student ensembles and met weekly with them;

- organized and supervised concerts

Music Tutor, Mather House 1985 - 1991

- private piano instruction for Mather students

- performed solo and chamber concerts throughout the university

ADMINISTRATIVE/ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Music Festival `Jiné Pohledy` (A Different Perspective), Prague 2011 - present

Festival devoted to first-rate works by lesser-known composers

Founder, creative director, and organizer of an annual three-concert festival. Activities include dramaturgy, fundraising, grant writing, hiring, and performing.

A Holocaust Memorial: Artistic director and co-producer with US composer Laurence Sherr of an ongoing project devoted to lesser-known works by Holocaust victims, survivors, and their descendants. Concerts, audio recording, and DVD, June 2011 - present

Geraldine Mucha: 95th birthday concert - Organized and promoted gala orchestral concert and reception at the Prague Conservatory featuring the Hradec Kralové Philharmonic

Geraldine Mucha: 90th birthday concert, organized and promoted gala chamber music concert and reception at the Czech National Museum featuring the Stamic String Quartet and the Prague Wind Quintet, April 2008

Music Now Prague Festival 1994-1996

Co-founder and organizer of a week-long festival of contemporary Czech and American music at Liechtenstein Palace, Prague. Festivals included three concerts, seminars, a country-wide scholarship program, and guest composers from the US, resulting in several tours to the US by Czech musicians and in other exchanges, which continue to the present.

Music Now Tour – 1995, organized and performed in a four-concert tour in California and Oregon with cellist Jiří Bárta and clarinetist Kamil Doležal

WRITING EXPERIENCE

The Prague Post, Prague, Czech Republic

Music Writer, 1991-2000

Restaurant Reviewer, 2001

NARRATION/DUBBING

William Walton: Facade narration, performed with Prague Chamber Philharmonic, Michael Swierczewski, conductor

BBC World Service - Dark Blue World

Free-lance dubbing for radio, film, and television, 1994 - present