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Look for part 2 De 1959 à 1964, Roy Goodman est formé au sein de la maîtrise du King's College de Cambridge, où il est remarqué comme soliste dans le Miserere d'Allegri. De 1968 à 1970, il étudie le violon au Royal College of Music de Londres, et, surtout, devient organiste. Passionné par la musique baroque, il fonde dès 1975 le Brandenburg Consort, et entreprend des recherches sur l'interprétation de Bach. Il se spécialise également dans les symphonies de Haydn et de Carl Philip Emanuel Bach jouées sur instruments d'époque. Depuis 1986, il dirige le Hanover Band et l'Orchestre baroque de la Communauté européenne. Il est aussi directeur des études de musique ancienne à la Royal Academy of Music de Londres. Roy Goodman is Principal Guest Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and for the past few years has been Principal Conductor of Holland Symfonia and the Bachkoor Holland. He is well known for his work as director and founder of the Brandenburg Consort (1975-2001), as co-founder (with Peter Holman) of the Parley of Instruments (1979-1986), co-founder (with Denys Darlow) of the London Handel Orchestra (in 1981), Principal Conductor of the Hanover Band (1986-1994), Music Director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (1989-2004) and as Music Director of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg (1999-2005). In 2006 he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam [see www.roygoodman.com] In 1959 (at the age of eight) Goodman made his first recording for Decca as a boy treble, with the choir of Kings College Cambridge under Sir David Willcocks, in Bachs St. John Passion (with Peter Pears as Evangelist). A few years later he achieved international fame as the soloist in Allegris Miserere (reissued, from 1963, on Decca Legends). His mothers godfather was Sir Malcolm Sargent whom he observed conducting at the Proms in the mid 1960s. When Goodman completed his studies at the Royal College of Music in London in 1970 he was already well qualified as a conductor, teacher, organist, violinist and musicologist. He is an honorary Doctor of Music, Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and Fellow of the Royal College of Music. From 1971 he spent several years as a High School music teacher, eventually as Director of Music at the University of Kent in Canterbury and as Director of Early Music Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. From 1975-1986 much of Goodmans career was spent as a violinist - working as concertmaster and soloist with Ashkenazy, Brüggen, Ivan Fischer, Gardiner, Herreweghe, Hogwood, Jacobs, Koopman, Mackerras, Marriner, Norrington and Rattle.