AWARDS
2007
The Royal Televison Society's Judges' Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education in Broadcasting.
The Making Music/Sir Charles Groves Prize for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
2006
The Voice of the Listener & Viewer Naomi Sargant Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education in Broadcasting.
The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters Gold Badge Award for Exceptional Service in Support of British Composers and Songwriters.
An Honorary Doctorate in Music from Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, & The University of Leicester, for Outstanding Services to Music Education.
2005
Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats, has won a Royal Television Society Award for Education. It was also nominated for a BAFTA (Huw Weldon Award) and an International Rose d'Or.
2004
Howard and Melvyn Bragg's The Hired Man won the TMA Award for Best Musical 2003-4, honouring the Salisbury Playhouse revival of The Hired Man, in the Autumn of 2003, directed by Joanna Reed.
2003
Howard's score for the BBC/HBO film The Gathering Storm was nominated for a 2003 BAFTA award (Best Original Music), and Howard Goodall's Great Dates was also nominated in the Arts category of the Montreux Television Festival and the UK's Indie TV awards, 2003.
2002
The Hired Man won the coveted Best Overall Production (First Prize) at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera in the Republic of Ireland 2001-2. In addition to the highest award, Full Circle Theatre Company's production of The Hired Man also won Best Stage Director, Best Female Performer, Best Lighting, Best Musical Director, Best Amateur Production and Best Post-war Show.
2001
In May 2001 the TV series "HOWARD GOODALL'S BIG BANGS" won a coveted BAFTA award. The series won the Huw Weldon Award for Specialised Series, fighting off stiff competition from Simon Schama's landmark 'History of Britain' and David Starkey's 'Elizabeth I'. The BAFTA awards are the most prestigious and highly-prized in British TV.
Howard Goodall's Big Bangs also won a prestigious PEABODY Award for Journalism & Mass Communication in the USA, the IMZ Vienna TV Award for Best Documentary (Program 2 'Opera'), was nominated for an International Emmy (Best Arts Documentary), a Royal Television Society Award (Best Arts Documentary), a Montreux International TV Festival 'Rose d'Or' (Best Arts Documentary) and a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award (TV & Radio category).
After completing its triumphant National Ballet of Flanders 2001 tour of Belgium & Holland (in Flemish), The Hired Man ('de Seizoenarbeider') also picked up four nominations (and won one) from the 'John Kraaijkamp Musical Awards' held in Scheveningen (Holland) on April 20th. The awards gala was broadcast on Dutch TV. The nominations were: Jan Schepens, best actor; Janke Dekker, best actress; Maike Boerdam & Wieneke Remmers, best newcomers.
In 2001 Howard also won the British Television Advertising Craft Award for Best Original Music for his music for the Timebank/BBC 'Turned Tables' Advertisement.