Portrait of Edward Goodman

Artist

Edward Goodman

Saxophonist Edward Goodman is a versatile performer, improviser, and educator comfortable in a wide array of musical idioms. He has received numerous awards of regional and national acclaim, including first prize in the North American Saxophone Alliance National Classical Solo Competition, 1st prize of the Society of Musical Arts Competition, winner of Michigan State University’s Concerto Competition, and winner of University of Michigan’s Concerto Competition. Goodman’s debut album with pianist Liz Ames, Liminal, has been considered “diabolically brilliant…superbly performed by two very special performers'' (Fanfare Magazine), and whose interpretations are “to become standard (The Saxophonist).” Goodman serves as Soprano Chair, and is a co-founder of the internationally recognized saxophone sextet, The Moanin’ Frogs.

As an accomplished orchestral performer, Goodman regularly has been invited to serve as principal saxophonist of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and has been invited to perform in the wind sections of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Music Academy of the West Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra Goodman has been invited as a guest artist and clinician at several colleges across the country as well as internationally, including: University of Cincinnati Conservatory; Texas A&M Commerce University; University of Nevada Las Vegas; New Mexico State University; University of Oklahoma; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d'Aulnay sous Bois, France. Goodman has served on the faculty of the internationally renowned Interlochen Center of the Arts Saxophone Institute along with PRISM Saxophone Quartet. Dr. Goodman currently serves as the Associate Professor of Saxophone at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, and endorses Conn Selmer, D’Addario Woodwinds, and Key Leaves products.