Andrew Goodwin (tenor)

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Andrew Goodwin is an Australian born operatic tenor.

Tenor is a male voice type in classical music whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is roughly A♭2 (two A♭s below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to the second F above middle C (F5). The tenor voice type is generally divided into the leggero tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor, and tenor buffo or spieltenor.

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Early years

Goodwin was born in Sydney, Australia, and began learning the violin at the age of five.[ citation needed ] His father, a school teacher, was a fan of classical music and collector of opera gramophone records. While singing in St. Andrew’s Cathedral choir, he continued learning the violin, piano, and organ. [1]

Sydney City in New South Wales, Australia

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Violin bowed string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths

The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow.

Education

Following a suggestion by his piano teacher that he study voice in Russia, Goodwin left Australia for Europe in 1999. He studied in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Professor Lyov Nikolaevich Morozov. Goodwin graduated from the Conservatory in June 2005. In 2006, he began a postgraduate diploma in vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music.[ citation needed ]

Russia transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia

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Saint Petersburg Conservatory music school in Saint Petersburg

The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its Royal Charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of Wellington. It is one of the leading conservatoires in the UK, rated fourth in the Complete University Guide and third in the Guardian University Guide for 2018. Famous Academy alumni include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox.

Career

Goodwin's operatic debut was as Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff for Opera Australia in January 2006. Later that year he performed Lensky in a new Production of Eugene Onegin by Dmitry Chernyakov at the Bolshoi Theatre, Russia, a rare achievement by a foreigner. He is also now a regular soloist with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and a cultural ambassador for Australia on the world stage.

Opera Australia principal opera company in Australia

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<i>Eugene Onegin</i> (opera) opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Since 2006, Goodwin has been a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow, Russia). [2] He has also appeared at The Sydney Opera house, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Centre, National Concert Hall Taipei, Teatro Real, Madrid, Gran Teatre de Liceu, Barcelona, La Scala, Milan, Philharmonic Hall, St. Peterburg, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

A list of Goodwin's roles includes:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian composer

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<i>Falstaff</i> (opera) opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan.

Giuseppe Verdi 19th-century Italian opera composer

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In December 2010, Goodwin played Orpheus in the Pinchgut Opera production of L'anima del filosofo by Joseph Haydn. [3]

Awards

Goodwin has won a number of competitions and prizes in Australia and abroad, including the Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship, Sir Robert Askin Operatic Traveling Scholarship, Australian Opera Auditions Committee Joan Sutherland, and Richard Bonynge Scholarship.

Personal life

Goodwin is a skilled surfer and enjoys playing basketball in his spare time. He lives in London with his wife, mezzosoprano Maria Timofeeva, and is the father of son Aleksander.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Keens, Leta (29 Nov 2010). "Pianist Andrew Goodwin finds his voice in Russia". The Australian.
  2. ↑ "Andrew Goodwin biography". bolshoi.ru. 2011-01-22.
  3. ↑ McDowall, Carolyn (2010-10-22). "Looking forward to tenor Andrew Goodwin as Orpheus, questing for love for the Pinchgut Opera". thecultureconcept.com.
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