Meet Dick Goodwin
Meet Dick Goodwin
Gordon (Dick) Goodwin came to the University of South Carolina in 1973 to start a doctoral program in composition, to head the theory-composition- history area, and to arrange music for the Carolina Bands. He also directed
the University Symphony for a number of seasons. Dr. Goodwin was the 2001 Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Individual Artist winner -- the highest honor awarded in the arts by the State of South Carolina.
Goodwin received his doctorate from the University of Texas where he directed the jazz program (which he initiated) and taught theory and composition there for nine years. Before that he served four years as a band director in the US Coast Guard.
Dr. Goodwin’s works in virtually every idiom from jingle to opera, jazz band to orchestra, have been performed across the US and abroad. He leads theDick Goodwin Big Band and the Dick Goodwin Quintet (which has made a dozen foreign concert tours) and he has written and produced many film
scores, commercials, and albums.
Dick’s wife Winifred is principle keyboardist with the SC Philharmonic,served as staff pianist for the USC School of Music for a number of years, andis the pianist at Virginia Wingard Memorial United Methodist Church. Daughter Gradi Evans was director of fine arts at the Geneva School (San Antonio) and still teaches music there. Son Dr. Richard Goodwin is a member of the USC College of Engineering faculty. Dick and Winifred have five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.