Program Information
MOZART | Symphony No. 13
MOZART | Horn Concerto No. 4
C. SCHUMANN | Three Romances
MENDELSSOHN | Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
Chad Goodman, conductor
Greg Flint, Horn
Ticket Information
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Since becoming Music Director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra in 2023, Chad Goodman has been praised for taking the orchestra to new artistic heights and dramatically expanding its impact in the community. In his first two seasons he led the ESO premieres of more than a dozen works, increased community engagement through run-out concerts and engaging presentations in Elgin and neighboring cities, and spearheaded the orchestra’s first ever Día de los Muertos concert, uniting the symphony with folkloric dance and vocals in a city-wide cultural celebration.
Named Conductor of the Year by the Illinois Council of Orchestras in 2025, Goodman has led orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Puebla (OSEP).
From 2023 to 2025, Goodman served as Artistic Director of IlluminArts, a Miami-based arts organization dedicated to the synthesis of music with visual art, poetry, and dance through bold, interdisciplinary collaborations. His programming created immersive experiences that transcended traditional boundaries, bringing audiences together to engage and connect in vibrant cultural dialogue.
From 2019 to 2023, Goodman was the Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony and Assistant Conductor to Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition to leading the orchestra in more than fi fty performances, he collaborated with sound engineers, videographers, animators, and light designers to push the boundaries of how classical music can be presented.
Goodman has also served as an Assistant Conductor to the San Francisco Symphony, working alongside Esa-Pekka Salonen, Herbert Blomstedt, Michael Tilson Thomas, Elim Chan, Manfred Honeck, Daniel Harding and Simone Young, among others.
Goodman additionally leads workshops that teach young musicians the business skills needed to successfully navigate the music world. Forbes praised the conductor’s bold strides both on and off stage and hailed him as “An entrepreneur bringing innovation to classical music.” In 2022 he published the book You Earned a Music Degree. Now What?
Goodman holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University. His mentors include Michael Tilson Thomas and Alasdair Neale.
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Gregory Flint has taught horn at the collegiate level for over thirty-five years, holding positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Roosevelt University in Chicago, and DePaul University. As a soloist, clinician, and chamber musician he has performed and given master classes in Spain, Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, Taiwan, Japan and throughout the United States.
As an orchestral musician, he is principal horn of the Elgin Symphony, and has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony, Colorado Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony and the Key West Symphony. Recently Mr. Flint performed several seasons as a long-term replacement player with the Milwaukee Symphony. During the summer months, Greg is a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and often performs at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
A strong advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Flint has had several solo compositions written for him, and performed numerous world premieres with such groups as Present Music, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the Contemporary Chamber Players, and on the Chamber Music Milwaukee, and Music from Almost Yesterday concert series.
His long-held position as first horn with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra has provided him opportunities to perform and record with such jazz luminaries as Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Jon Faddis, Ernie Watts, and Frank Sinatra.