Eric Goode

Dr. Eric Goode is an active freelance tuba player and music educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Goode has performed in elite musical ensembles throughout the Boston area and beyond. He currently serves as the Principal Tuba for the Boston Festival Orchestra and Cape Ann Symphony, and has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Cape Symphony Orchestra, Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra, Symphony New Hampshire, and many more large and chamber ensembles.  

Dr. Goode is an active collaborator in featuring local and upcoming composers. He is currently a member of commissioning projects that aim to introduce new works for the tuba and chamber groups. Some recent commissions and premiers include Passacaglia for brass quintet and Look Up for tuba and piano by Ryan Stees, Quantum Computing is the Elephant in the Bitcoin Vault by Danny Fratina, Core Dogie by Joe Ricard, and The Natural Lands, a suite for tuba quartet by Shawn W. Davern, which won the Winston Morris Award for Excellence in Tuba and Euphonium Composition at the 2019 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference in Iowa City, Iowa.

In addition to his performing experience, Dr. Goode is an active educator, both in an applied lesson setting as well as chamber and large ensemble instruction/coaching. He currently serves as the Pep Band Director and Marching Band Low Brass Instructor at Boston College. In the classroom, Dr. Goode is the Instructor of Winds and Percussion at Milton Academy, where he coaches middle and high school wind and percussion ensembles and develops curriculum for jazz, general music, and orchestral courses. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Goode creates music based programming in his role as the Children’s Program Artistic Manager for the non-profit Shelter Music Boston. These programs are delivered at multiple partner sites on a monthly basis, and are tailored for and delivered to children and families experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.

Dr. Goode received his Bachelor of Music degree from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he studied with Professor Kevin Stees. During his tenure at James Madison University, Mr. Goode launched his performing career domestically and abroad, including a tour of Austria and Germany with the James Madison University Brass Band, and performances at International Tuba Euphonium Association conferences throughout the United States and in Linz, Austria. He received his Master of Music  and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in 2017 and 2023 from Boston University, where he was a student of Mike Roylance, principal tuba of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.