Richard Goode is an American pianist, born in the Bronx, New York City, on June 1, 1943. He studied with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, and Nadia Reisenberg at Mannes College, then with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski at the Curtis Institute.
Goode won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 1973 and received the Avery Fisher Award in 1980. In 1983, he won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Recording for Johannes Brahms’s sonatas for clarinet and piano, recorded with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. Other musicians with whom he has performed in ensembles include singer Dawn Upshaw and violinist Sasha Schneider.
His repertoire centers on works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. His recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven’s sonatas have received particular recognition. Goode has taught at Mannes College since 1966 and is one of the artistic directors of the Marlboro Music School.