Tenor Andrew Goodwin has appeared with opera companies in Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia, including the Bolshoi Opera, Gran Theatre Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, La Scala Milan, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera and Sydney Chamber Opera.
On the concert platform he has toured with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Maestro Temirkanov, performed with the Sydney, Melbourne, West Australian, Queensland, Tasmanian and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and has given recitals with pianist Daniel de Borah at the Wigmore Hall, at the Oxford Lieder, and at the Port Fairy, Huntington, Coriole, Bendigo, Huntington and Canberra International Music Festivals.
Andrew will feature in recital at both the Bendigo and Orange Chamber Music Festivals this year, return to Melbourne Bach Choir as Evangelist in St. Matthew Passion and to Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in Creation. He also joins the cast as Steuermann in West Australian Symphony’s presentation of The Flying Dutchman (Asher Fisch conducting), the Sydney Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem with Stephen Layton conducting and finishes his year with the Tasmanian Symphony in 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 also sung Tamino, Alfred (Die Fledermaus) and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Bolshoi, with which he toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia. Further international appearances have been as Silvio in Martin Y Soler’s L’Arbore di Diana in Barcelona, as Gomatz in Mozart’s Zaide with The Classical Opera Company, London and as Avvakum in the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s Boyarina Morozova at the Moscow State Conservatory. Closer to home Andrew has performed 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) Adelaide Festival, and Egeo (Giasone), Florival (L’amant jaloux), Orpheus (L’anima del filosofo) and the title role in Artaxerxes (Hasse) for Pinchgut Opera.
Most recently, Andrew returned to the opera stage and Adelaide Festival as Renaud in Stravinsky’s The Fox for the Festival’s presentation of The Nightingale and other fables; to West Australian Symphony in the role of Alfred (Die Fledermaus) and the world premiere of Stanhope’s Mahāsāgar; to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as Mime (Das Rheingold), the Narr in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn, and to the Adelaide, Queensland, West Australian and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras in Mozart’s Requiem. He has also been heard with Sydney Chamber Choir in Bach’s Mass in B minor; in Carmina Burana with Melbourne Symphony (also in Singapore); Messiah with Brisbane Chamber Choir, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony; St. Matthew Passion with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Monash University Orchestra and Choir; Elijah with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; Creation with Victoria Chorale; and Britten’s War Requiem for Brisbane Festival. Andrew also featured at the Four Winds Easter Festival at Bermagui, at Opera in the Arboretum, Pearl Beach, and in Flowers of Peace in Canberra.
Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 continues to feature prominently in Andrew Goodwin’s diary, recently performing with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, Germany and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. He is also a regular guest with the Melbourne Bach Choir, The Canberra International and Sanguine Estate Music Festivals and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Andrew’s recordings include Schubert’s Die schőne Müllerin and Winterreise and When yesterday we met (songs of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky) with Daniel de Borah for ABC Classics, and Artaxerxes (Hasse), Giasone (Cavalli), L’ámant jaloux (Gretry) and L’anima del filosofo (Haydn) with Pinchgut Opera.
Born in Sydney, Andrew studied voice at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the direction of Professor Lev Morozov, graduating with a Bachelor of Music. He has also studied with Robert Dean in the UK. During his studies Andrew won a number of awards and scholarships including the Tait Memorial Trust Scholarship; 2nd place in the Yelena Obraztsova Singing Competition in St. Petersburg; the Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarship; the Sir Robert Askin Operatic Travelling Scholarship; and the Australian Opera Auditions Committee Joan Sutherland Richard Bonynge Scholarship. He has also received support from the Australian Music Foundation and ARS Musica Australis.