We are delighted to welcome leading UK organist David Goode to Portico.

David Goode was organ scholar at King’s, Cambridge and Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford, and was for 17 years, Organist at Eton College. He is now a busy freelance recitalist, accompanist, continuo player and teacher.

He has performed frequently as a soloist at the Proms (a featured artist in 2011) and the Royal Festival Hall (including the re-opening concert in 2014) and has toured extensively abroad with concerts throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Notable partnerships over the years include the BBCNOW, the BBC Singers and the trumpeter Alison Balsom, while his most recent live solo recital for BBC Radio 3 was in 2019. Amongst many recordings, he recently released a much-admired set of the complete organ works of Bach for Signum Records. He has composed a number of choral and organ pieces, with recordings including those by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and was on the jury for the 2017 St Alban’s International Competition.

More recent projects have included a recording of music by John Pickard for BIS (‘magnificently assured and enviably concentrated’, Gramophone), works by Locklair with the choir of Royal Holloway for Convivium Records (‘The contribution of organist David Goode here is inspirational’ Fanfare), and a CD of Mozart’s organ works for Signum, due for release next year. Concert engagements this year have included two concerts in the English Music Festival, Holst’s Planets at St Michael’s, Cornhill, and a recital for the London Organs Day; he will play at Leeds Cathedral next month.

Supported by Lottery Project Funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland