Richard Goering

Guitarist Richard Goering was first moved to play the guitar after seeing the Beatles' performances on the Ed Sullivan Show. Two years later, after watching films of Andres Segovia masterclasses in Santiago de Compostela, he began to study classical guitar. His programs include explorations of the eclectic music of our century—classical, Latin, jazz, and popular—prompting one critic to write that "the guitar is for our time but it is also for all time." (Louisville Courier-Journal)

Comfortable in many venues, Richard Goering has performed to enthusiastic responses in outreach settings and on concert series in the U.S. and internationally, solo and with other instrumentalists. "Beautiful sounds, elegant, well constructed phrases." (Corriere della Sera, Rome)

Because now is the time to be a guitarist, his programs feature his arrangements and improvisations on the music of Duke Ellington, Luis Bonfa, the Beatles, and Eric Clapton. "…rhythmic verve" (American Record Guide)