Erica Goodman

Erica Goodman is arguably one of the most prominent Canadian harpist of her era, and easily among the very best several from THE UNITED STATES. Her technique is certainly all-encompassing and her interpretive abilities incisive and imaginative. To state her repertory is certainly wide and eclectic will be an understatement: she performs functions from all intervals, from Baroque (Handel, Couperin, Lully, and many more) to modern (Elliott Carter, Crumb, Hovhaness); from small known composers (François Joseph Gossec, Louis-François Dauprat, Marjan Mozetich) to well-known composers not really from the harp (Donizetti, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Satie), aswell as ladies composers (Sophia Corri Dussek, Barbara Pentland, and Alexina Louie). And, obviously, she has frequently appeared in the world’s main concert locations as soloist, chamber participant, and recitalist. Goodman provides produced over 30 recordings pass on over several brands, including Naxos, BIS, CBC, Marquis, and Starting Time. Erica Goodman was created in Toronto, Canada, on January 19, 1948. Her dad was violinist Hyman Goodman. Little Erica began monitoring piano in 1958, and a season afterwards, without abandoning piano, used the harp. In her early years Goodman’s harp instructors included Charles Kleinsteuber, Judy Loman, and Carol Baum. On the Curtis Institute (1967-1969) she examined harp with Marilyn Costello. Goodman released her professional profession using the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, portion simply because second harpist from 1962-1966, coming back for another stint in 1969-1973. In this last period she debuted being a soloist (1969) in the Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp using the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1970 she teamed with fellow Toronto Symphony member, flutist Robert Aitken, to create the Aitken-Goodman Duo. Both toured the U.S. using the American chamber group Tashi in 1976. That same season Goodman provided the extremely praised premiere from the Oskar Morawetz Harp Concerto in Guelph, Ontario. She’d payment and perform a great many other essential harp functions, like 1979 Milton Barnes’ Variants for harp single. Goodman was presented with the esteemed Mona Bates Prize in 1978 on her behalf extraordinary artistry. In 1980 she and Aitken gained the Grand Prix du Disque Canada because of their BIS LP entitled Flute and Harp. Through the entire 1980s and beyond, Goodman freelanced and continuing executing in the Aitken-Goodman Duo. She also performed in various other chamber groups, like the Trio Toronto, Galliard Outfit, and Trio Lyra. Goodman continued to be busy in the brand new century. Her afterwards recordings included the 2008 Naxos Compact disc of Elliott Carter’s Mosaic.