Violinist Randall Goosby has arrived – and never simply on the Tiny Desk. The younger Juilliard graduate is racking up debuts with the world’s most essential orchestras, he simply pocketed the $25,000 Avery Fisher Profession Grant and he can boast none aside from violin legend Itzhak Perlman as his mentor. Not dangerous for 26 years outdated.
We all know Goosby’s star is on the rise, however the way in which his profession acquired off the bottom is price mentioning. Goosby is an alum of the Detroit-based Sphinx Group, which, for 25 years, has helped launch many outstanding musicians of coloration, together with composers Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon, pianist Lara Downes and opera stars Davóne Tines and Will Liverman. Goosby, at age 13, was the youngest to win the Sphinx Concerto Competitors.
Sphinx was additionally the place he first carried out uncared for music by Black composers. “With every passing day,” Goosby instructed NPR final 12 months, “you possibly can nearly see this wave of reckoning, and other people beginning to understand the magnitude of the physique of labor that we have not paid consideration to.”
Joined by the discerning pianist Zhu Wang, Goosby begins with the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Deep River,” the bittersweet non secular whose melody floats with unusual magnificence on this efficiency. Pay attention for the peerlessly positioned excessive notice on the finish. Goosby then suggestions his hat to Antonin Dvorak, the composer who instructed that American composers look to the music of African Individuals for pure inspiration. The 2 younger musicians shut with “Estrellita,” a bon-bon of unrequited love from Mexican composer Manuel Ponce.
Together with his safe method, pure phrasing, beautiful tone and good programming, Randall Goosby has every thing it takes to craft a serious profession.
SET LIST
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: “Deep River” (arr. Maud Powell)
- Antonin Dvorak: Sonatina for Violin and Piano, IV. Finale: Allegro
- Manuel Ponce: “Estrellita” (arr. Jascha Heifetz):
MUSICIANS
- Randall Goosby: violin
- Zhu Wang: piano
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Tom Huizenga
- Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
- Director: Kara Body
- Sequence Creator: Bob Boilen
- Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Videographers: Kara Body, Joshua Bryant, Pierre Kattar
- Audio Assistant: Natasha Department
- Manufacturing Assistants: Jill Britton, Joby Tanseco
- Tiny Desk Group: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Maia Stern
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
- Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
