directed by Lorin Maazel, and became a regular guest in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic directed by Zubin Mehta, with whom he subsequently performed (1972–89) in New York, Tel Aviv, and Paris. He appeared regularly at BBC Promenade Concerts, at Teatro La Fenice for La Biennale di Venezia (with Péter Eötvös and the Norddeutscher Rundfunkorchester), Warszawska Jesień, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Wien Modern with Claudio Abbado, at the New York Piano Festival, Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron and at the , Touraine, at the invitation of its artistic director, Sviatoslav Richter.In 1992, Woodward directed an all-Xenakis program at Scala di Milano. He also performed at outdoor venues including the Hollywood Bowl (Stravinsky); Odéon of Herodes Atticus, Athens On four occasions he performed with Cecil Taylor in the Gulbenkian Park, Lisbon (1986–92) and on several occasions at The Domain with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven and Tchaikovsky). In traditions pioneered by Dame Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger, he performed extensively throughout Central and Regional Australia, often in outdoor venues. In 1975, he premiered Morton Feldman's Piano and Orchestra with the Saarbrücken Rundfunkorchester at the (Metz Festival) (in the composer's presence) directed by Hans Zender. It was the year when Woodward first encountered Anne Boyd's a cappella masterpiece: As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, which made a profound impact upon him. Then in June and July, as Dmitri Shostakovich lay dying in a Moscow Cancer Clinic, he made the first complete recording in the West of his 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, in tribute to the great Russian composer. In 1977, he premiered Feldman's solo work Piano (which was dedicated to Woodward) in Baden- Baden, commissioned Elisabeth Lutyens for a work for solo piano and two chamber orchestras, (Nox, Op.118), and, following the Valldemosa Festival, began a collaboration with Alberto Ginastera which continued until 1979. 1978 saw his first performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas at the Adelaide Festival, repeated at Kenwood House, London, the following year and in 1980 for the Sydney Festival. In the same year he premiered the Xenakis solo piano work Mists in Edinburgh (in the composer's presence). A further performance of the Beethoven cycle followed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. At London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, he gave the world premiere of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories in the presence of the composer—a ninety-minute masterpiece which heralded the composer's late period. In