Artistic Director

Rachel Goodwin, Artistic Director

Rachel Goodwin has been the Artistic Director of AHCM since its founding in 1985. She is a performer, a teacher and a resident of Ashmont Hill who is committed to the community's cultural growth. She has appeared in solo recitals and as a chamber musician throughout the eastern United States and California including at the Mannes College of Music, New England Conservatory, the Gardner and DeCordova Museums, Harvard University, Longy School of Music, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California at Riverside, WGBH radio, Boston's First Night Celebration and as a concerto soloist with the Brookline Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in summer music festivals at Ernen Musikdorf (Switzerland), Aspen, the Banff Centre (Canada) and New College (Florida). Ms. Goodwin holds a Diploma in Piano Performance from the Mannes College of Music in New York and an M.M. (with honors) from the New England Conservatory. Her piano teachers include Edith Oppens, Barbara Shearer and Alexander Lieberman, and she has performed in master classes for Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Gyorgy Sebok. Active as a music theorist as well as a performer, Ms. Goodwin presented a lecture/recital on Bartok that was the featured event at a joint meeting of two music theory societies. In 2002, Rachel Goodwin was named by the Boston Cultural Council as an Artist/Humanist Fellow in the City of Boston. Artist/Humanist Fellows are chosen based on the quality of their creative work, their dedication over time, their community building efforts and their outreach to the public at large.