Patricia Goodson is an American

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

residing in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. Goodson's recording of contemporary

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

music, ''Strange Attractors'', features works by John Harbison, Martin Herman, Stephen Jaffe, Robert Kyr,

Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and professor. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University ...

and

Randall Woolf Randall Woolf (born August 23, 1959) is an American composer known for his diverse contemporary works for chamber orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo players, often combined with digital audio, turntables, and video. He studied composition priv ...

. She has also recorded a 4-disc set of the complete solo piano music of Czech composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster, titled ''Foerster: Dreams, Memories and Impressions''. Other recordings include works by Scottish-Czech composer

Geraldine Mucha Geraldine Thomson Mucha (5 July 1917 – 12 October 2012) was a Scottish composer. She was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She married the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, son of the painter Alphonse Mucha, and in 1945 moved ...

, her ''Concerto for Piano'' (1960) and ''Variations on an Old Scottish Song'' (1954), both on an ArcoDiva label release. Goodson's pianism also appears on a Rattle Records label release titled ''Shadows Crossing Water'', featuring works by New Zealand composer Dame Gillian Whitehead. In addition, Goodson has recorded numerous works for Czech Radio including pieces by Vlastislav Matoušek, Hanuš Bartoň, Josef Adamek and others. Goodson has hosted numerous programs on Czech music for

Radio Prague Radio Prague International ( cs, Český rozhlas 7 – Radio Praha) is the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic. Broadcasting first began on August 31, 1936 near the spa town of Poděbrady. Radio Prague broadcasts in ...

to include a series titled ''Encore'', and many of these programs have been archived at the

website. She has also written articles for '' The Prague Post''. Early in her career, Goodson was employed by General Computer Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts to create or transcribe music and sound effects for video games, chiefly for Atari home cartridges. She composed music for Bally Midway`s "Jr Pac-Man" and "Foodfight", and handled audio work for approximately 35 game cartridges. Goodson graduated from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

with a degree in music, and from the

Peabody Conservatory The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University is a private conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1857 and opened in 1866 by merchant/financier and philanthropist George Peabody (1795–1869) ...

with a Master of Music in piano performance. She is on the piano faculty of

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, and until 2017 served as co-founder and co-director of the

musical archive.

Personal life

Goodson lives in

with her husband, Ivan Karhan, proprietor of the Rocking Horse Toy Shop."Rocking Horse Toy Shop" (tripadvisor.com website)
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References

External links

Patricia Goodson's website

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4-Mar-2014 review of ''Foerster: Dreams, Memories and Impressions''
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