Paul Goodwin

On educational projects he has worked with both the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands (NJO) and the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the Britten-Pears Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and with the orchestras of the Royal College of Music (RCM) and Royal Academy of Music (RAM), and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Paul Goodwin is a regular visiting conductor for the Queen Elisabeth Competition Brussels. He has been appointed the Music Director and Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival, from the 2011 season.

Paul has a wide symphonic repertoire, conducting orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In the US he has conducted the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Washington, D.C., and in 2009 the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in Europe, the Belgian National Orchestra and Spanish National Orchestras, Helsinki Philharmonic and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hessisches Rundfunkorchester and NDR Hannover Rundfunkorchester. His repertoire spans from Purcell and Bach to Brahms and Schumann, from Ravel, Elgar and Stravinsky, to Messiaen, Takemitsu and Maxwell Davies. In 2008/2009 he conducted a wide variety of repertoire with orchestras including the Philharmonia Baroque, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne and Kammerorchester Basel. He returns to the Orquesta Nacional de Espana and to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York for performances of the St Matthew Passion.

Paul Goodwin was awarded the Handel Prize of the City of Halle (Saale) in 2007 in recognition of his extraordinary services to performances of works by George Frederic Handel.

In 1996 he made the decision to give up his oboe career and dedicate himself solely to conducting. He subsequently studied conducting in Helsinki with Jorma Panula, and took up posts with The Academy of Ancient Music (associate conductor), and the English Chamber Orchestra (principal guest conductor). Paul Goodwin has become one of Britain's most versatile conductors, renowned for his historically informed interpretations of baroque, classical and romantic music, while also being a great advocate of contemporary music.

Paul Goodwin (born 2 September 1956) is an English conductor, and former oboist.