Howard Goodall - Presenting

Presenting

As well as presenting the BBC's Choir of the Year, Young Musician of the Year, among many programmes, he has presented six award-winning series of television programmes on musical theory & history, filmed by Tiger Aspect and broadcast on Channel 4:

• Howard Goodall's Organworks (1996) — history of the organ
• Howard Goodall's Choirworks (1998) — history of choral music
• Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (2000) — pivotal events in the history of music (also a book, published by Vintage in 2001, ISBN 0-09-928354-9
• Howard Goodall's Great Dates (2002) — important dates in the history of music
• Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats (2004) — exploring the divergence between classical and popular music in the 20th century
• Howard Goodall's How Music Works (2006) — analysing the fundamental components of music itself.

Goodall received a Royal Television Society award for Organworks and the 2000 BAFTA Huw Wheldon award for Big Bangs, which also won several international prizes.

On Christmas Day December 2008, Goodall presented The Truth About Christmas Carols on BBC 2 TV, a documentary examining the surprising, and often secret, history of the traditional Christmas carol and on Good Friday April 2009 Hallelujah! The Story of Handel’s Messiah. In 2010, Goodall presented Music Room on Sky Arts.