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Dr. Kathryn Goodson, Piano
Department of Music & Dance
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734) 487-4380
Kathgdsn@aol.com
Kathryn Goodson, pianist, is described as a creative soloist and a partner with exceptional presence and audience appeal. She commands a collaborative repertoire spanning chamber music with strings, contemporary works with winds and art song. In July 2005, after performing Brahms’ Schöne Magelone with baritone Ulrich Wand in Schloß Bebenhausen, Germany, she was hailed in the Tübingen Stadtblatt as "an exquisite American specialist of German romantic music." Some of Ms. Goodson's innovative solo programs combining music and narrative have been featured on radio and television. Her venues include the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan's Pine Mountain Music Festival, Dunvegan Castle of Scotland, the Internationale-Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart, Strings in the Mountains Festival in Colorado and many productions of the Swiss impresario, Armin Brunner. Among
recordings featuring partner Kathryn Goodson is Melodrama, a critically acclaimed Albany Records release of Russian music for bass trombone and piano, performed with Randall Hawes of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. A disc of American music for saxophone and piano with Timothy McAllister, professor at SUNY Potsdam, will be released in 2006. Ms. Goodson and University of Michigan School of Music Professor Donald Sinta, considered by many to be the dean of American classical saxophonists, have collaborated since 1990.
Kathryn Goodson recently joined the piano teaching faculty at Eastern Michigan University and was appointed to the University of Michigan School of Music in a newly created position: Collaborative Pianist for Wind Instrumentalists. Since 1989 Ms. Goodson has performed or taught master classes at numerous music schools, including the Interlochen Arts Academy, Baylor University, the Hartt School of Music, the Baseler Musikakademie and the Conservatoire de Genève in Switzerland and the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe in Germany, where her American Art Song class has been featured three times. Ms. Goodson's students and partners have been featured often at the Northside Community Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she has been Musician-in-Residence since 1997.
Kathryn Goodson completed the Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano with Martin Katz at the University of Michigan. Her Liedgestaltung-Konzertexam, Germany's equivalent to an American performance doctorate in art song, was attained with Hartmut Höll at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and awarded with highest honors. Twice a Fulbright Scholar to Germany, she is also a prize-winning lauréate of the Fondation de Yehudi Menuhin in Paris, and holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory with Robert Shannon.
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