Andrew Goodwin
Tenor
Tenor Andrew Goodwin’s appearances with opera companies include the Bolshoi Opera, Gran Theatre Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, La Scala Milan, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, Opera Australia, and Sydney Chamber Opera.
On the concert platform, he has toured with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, is a regular guest with all the Australian Symphony Orchestras, and has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder, Port Fairy, Huntington, Coriole, Bendigo, Huntington, and Canberra International Music Festivals.
This year Andrew features in recital at Bendigo and Orange Chamber Music Festivals and returns to Melbourne Bach Choir as Evangelist (St. Matthew Passion), to Sydney Philharmonia Choirs (Creation), Sydney Symphony (Mozart’s Requiem) with Stephen Layton, and Tasmanian Symphony (Messiah).
Andrew’s roles for Opera Australia include Fenton (Falstaff), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Novice (Billy Budd), Janek (The Makropulos Secret), and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte). He has sung Tamino, Alfred (Die Fledermaus), and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Bolshoi; Silvio in Martin Y Soler’s L’Arbore di Diana in Barcelona; Gomatz in Mozart’s Zaide with The Classical Opera Company, London; the title role in Stravinky’s The Rake’s Progress with Auckland Philharmonia; Boris (Katya Kabanova) with Victorian Opera; Nadir (The Pearlfishers) for State Opera South Australia; Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Adelaide Festival, and Egeo (Giasone), Florival (L’amant jaloux), Orpheus (L’anima del filosofo), and the title role in Artaxerxes (Hasse) for Pinchgut Opera.
His recordings include Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and When yesterday we met (songs of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky) for ABC Classics, and Artaxerxes, Giasone, L’ámant jaloux, and L’anima del filosofo with Pinchgut Opera. Born in Sydney, Andrew studied voice at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and in the UK with Robert Dean. The winner of multiple awards and scholarships, he has also received support from the Australian Music Foundation and ARS Musica Australis.