Chad Goodman has received widespread praise for thrilling conducting that combines “precision, agility and fervor” (N. Stanić Kovačevic, South Florida Classical Review) and for displaying the “pitch perfect combination of abandon and subtlety” (L. Budman, South Florida Classical Review).

The 2023/24 season marks Goodman’s inaugural season as Music Director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.

Goodman also serves as Artistic Director of IlluminArts, Miami’s art song and chamber music concert series. From 2018 to 2023, Goodman served as an Assistant Conductor to the San Francisco Symphony.

As Founder and Artistic Director of Elevate Ensemble, Goodman’s ambitious vision for concert programming resulted in the pairing of music from Bay Area composers with underappreciated gems of the 20th and 21st centuries. Under his leadership, Elevate Ensemble established a Composer-in-Residence program and commissioned fifteen new works.

Goodman holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University. He currently splits his time between Florida and Illinois.