"He exerted a masterly level of control and lavished an exquisite tone on Ysaÿe’s unaccompanied Sonata No. 3. ...his performance won him a deserved standing ovation for its sheer virtuosity."
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Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020 at the age of 24, American violinist Randall Goosby is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his musicianship alongside his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, as well as bringing the music of under-represented composers to light. Goosby serves on Juilliard’s Pre-College violin faculty, is the Cincinnati Symphony’s Inaugural Community Artist-in-Residence, and as of 2024/25, he is a member of Konzerthaus Dortmund’s series “Junge Wilde”.
Highlights of Randall Goosby’s 2026/27 season include returns to the Dallas Symphony/Matthias Pintscher and Chicago Symphony/Karina Canellakis and debut performances with the Pacific Symphony/Eric Jacobsen, São Paulo Symphony/Marin Alsop, Montpellier Orchestra/Roderick Cox, Chattanooga Symphony/Ilya Ram, Long Beach Symphony/Eckert Preu, and New Bedford Symphony/Yaniv Dinur. He appears in recital across North America and Europe with pianist Zhu Wang as well as with the Renaissance Quartet, who has been named by the Caramoor Center as the 2026/27 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence.
Goosby plays the Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, “ex-Strauss,” 1708 on generous loan from Samsung Foundation of Culture.
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Music video by Randall Goosby, Zhu Wang performing Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano).
Given the original title of “Sonata for Piano and Violin,” Brahms intended for the piano part to be held in equal regard to the violin. Both performers were undoubtedly up to the challenge, as neither could put a finger wrong, resulting in applause between each movement, a gesture that both Goosby and Wang accepted and encouraged for the remainder of the performance. … [I]t is always a joy to hear [Florence Price’s] work, especially when performed with great care and finesse, as Goosby has done. Both Fantasies yet again require both technical and musical perfection ….
[Randall Goosby’s] sense of impish playfulness was evident throughout the concerto, all good-humoured and at peace with the world. … [H]is playing was never short on contrasts. The central Adagio offered a solo line of finely spun silk and the closing sequence intensified the essential serenity, like being mesmerised by the gentle flickering of a candle in the darkness of night. … [I]n the final Rondo where Mozart suddenly plunges into a short pavane-like episode in G minor … the overlapping of the inner parts played pizzicato demonstrated perfect adroitness. In Goosby’s encore, the Louisiana Blues Strut by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, the sunny smiles and sense of fun were out in full force.
The 27-year-old violinist Randall Goosby, making his Mostly Mozart debut, was luminous in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto — his tone luscious, elegant and sweet without being syrupy. His unforced ease and alluringly relaxed vibrato gave his legato suppleness, and his trill was an act of gracefulness instead of athleticism. When the orchestra re-entered with the first movement’s main theme, it felt like a catharsis of the joy Goosby had cultivated.