Paul Goodwin is 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 is Associate Conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music and a regular guest conductor with the Kammerorchester Basel and the Sudwest Rundfunk Orchester Kaiserslautern.  He was the Principal Guest Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra for six years.

Paul has a wide symphonic repertoire, conducting orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra., Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, the Belgium and Spanish National Orchestras, Helsinki and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics and the Bayerischer and Hessischer Rundfunkorchesters. His repertoire spans from Purcell and Bach to Brahms and Schumann, from Ravel, Elgar and Stravinsky, to Messiaen, Takemitsu, and Maxwell Davies.

In opera, Paul has appeared at the Komische Oper in Berlin with Iphigenie en Tauride, at the Teatro Real in Madrid with Britten’s Rape of Lucretia, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris with Handel’s Riccardo Primo and in Brussels with the National Orchestre performing Puccini’s Gianni Schicci.

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

Mr. Goodwin conducts “Baroque Grand Tour” on February 27 and March 1. These performances mark his Handel and Haydn Society debut.