Patricia Goodson maintains a busy schedule as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Europe and North America. Her playing, described by critics as "powerful and seductive" has been featured on television and radio in Europe and the US. Her keen interest in contemporary music is reflected by the large number of composers who have written works especially for her. Ms. Goodson specializes in playing recent music by living composers. Goodson's CD, Strange Attractors, a collection of recent works by both established and up-and-coming American composers was released on Albany Records, and has received unanimously high praise from critics. Recent engagements include performances at the City of Prague Gallery, Camerata Brno, Umûlecka beseda, Foerster Hall, and Prague's Liechtenstein Palace. She has also appeared at the Bear Valley Music Festival in California, the American Academy in Rome, the "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music" in Odessa, Ukraine, and in other festivals and subscription series. Current projects include a CD of new Czech music, all of which has been written especially for her. She and this project were the subjects of a recent BBC World Service "Music Review" program. In addition to her performing acti vities, Ms. Goodson was the founder and Artistic Director of the Music Now Prague Festival, an event devoted to new Czech and American music, which introduced Czech audiences to works by Americans Stephen Jaffe, John Harbison, Stephen Hartke, Martin Herman, Robert Kyr, Scott Lindroth and others, and by Czech composers ranging from Vlastislav Matoucek to Marek Kopelent. She has appeared in numerous Czech festivals, including Moravian Autumn, Musica Judaica, Atelier 90, Studio N, and Percussion Plus, and with leading artists such as cellist Jirí Bárta and pianist Milan Langer. Ms. Goodson received Music Now/Downtown Opera Tour Proposal page 11 her education at Duke University and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Before moving to Prague, she served as a music tutor and chamber music coach at Harvard University, and was a regular performer with the Harvard Group for New Music. She currently hosts and researches Czech Radio's "Encore" program, and writes about music for the Prague Post, an English-language weekly newspaper.

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