His repertoire spans from Purcell and Bach to Brahms and Schumann, from Ravel, Elgar and Stravinsky, to Messiaen, Takemitsu and Maxwell Davies. In 2008/2009 he conducted a wide variety of repertoire with orchestras including the Philharmonia Baroque, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne and Kammerorchester Basel. He returns to the Orquesta Nacional de Espana and to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York for performances of the "St Matthew Passion". Goodwin's recent successes have included "Iphigenie en Tauride" at the Komische Oper Berlin, "The Rape of Lucretia" at the Teatro Real Madrid and "Orlando (opera)"at Opera Australia. Past highlights include Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro" and "Il Re Pastore" at Opera North, "Idomeneo" at the Graz Opera, "The Magic Flute" at the Aalto Theatre in Essen, Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" in Athens, Handel's "Orlando (opera)" at the Flanders Opera and Haydn's "L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice" in Madrid. On educational projects he has worked with both the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands (NJO) and the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the Britten-Pears Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and with the orchestras of the Royal College of Music (RCM) and Royal Academy of Music (RAM), and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Paul Goodwin is a regular visiting conductor for the Queen Elisabeth Competition Brussels. In 2011 he was appointed the Music Director and Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival. Paul Goodwin was awarded the Handel Prize of the City of Halle (Saale) in 2007 in recognition of his extraordinary services to performances of works by George Frederic Handel. He has recorded CDs of both Handel's opera "Lotario" and the complete Riccardo Primo, and Handel's great English oratorio "Athalia". He is also a regular guest conductor with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and has recorded four discs: one of Christmas music from Praetorius to Britten and another of Richard Strauss.