Luis Herrero Dante and soon after, began working with Cuban composers Sergio Barroso, Juan Blanco, Leo Brouwer, and Carlos Fariñas. During visits to London (1966–68), Woodward prepared Chopin manuscripts owned by British musicologist Arthur Hedley, before including them in recitals at the Wigmore Hall and South Bank. Contrary to some reports, Woodward did not enter the International Chopin Piano Competition. However, he regularly performed Chopin's music in Poland: at the Twenty-Third International Chopin Festival, Duszniki-Zdrój (1968), at Żelazowa Wola (Chopin's birthplace), at the Kraków Spring Festival (1968) and at the Ostrowski Palace on several occasions. He also performed the complete works of Chopin (by heart) at the Sydney Festival 1983-1985 in support of the Solidarność Movement to raise public awareness of the importance of Poland's struggle for human rights. In 1967, Woodward played for Lina Prokofieva in Warsaw and was soon invited to perform with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra then throughout Poland. Two years later, he toured extensively with the Wiener Trio performed in Cuba as guest of Casa de las Américas and at the Paris Jeunesses Musicales where the UNESCO Rostrum's two principal jury members, Yehudi Menuhin and Jack Lang, noticed Woodward's performances of his own compositions alongside works of J. S. Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Soon after he made his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London and on Menuhin's recommendation, his first four recordings for EMI. In 1971, Woodward performed his first recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with premieres of works by Richard Meale, Ross Edwards, Leo Brouwer, Takemitsu and Barraqué, after which he was invited by Robert Slotover, CEO, Allied Artists Management, to co-found a series of new music concerts known as the London Music Digest at the Roundhouse. Digest performances with Barraqué were followed by a close working relationship with the composer on his Sonate pour piano at the EMI Abbey Road Studios, then in Paris and at the Royan Festival. Woodward also worked with John Cage at the Roundhouse for the British premiere of HPSCHD for ICES (International Carnival of Experimental Sound) and the BBC Proms. Further collaborations were undertaken with Stockhausen at the Festival Hall, London, and with Takemitsu at the Roundhouse, London's Decca Studios, and the Music Today Festival, Tokyo.A partnership also began with Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Roundhouse, the Cheltenham Festival, and with Bernard Rands for the premiere