Geoffrey Douglas Madge, born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 3 October 1941, is an Australian classical pianist, composer, and music educator. Madge began piano lessons at eight years of age and studied at the Elder Conservatorium before winning the ABC Concerto and Vocal Competition in 1963. Relocating to Europe that year, he studied under Eduardo del Pueyo, Géza Anda, and Péter Solymos, before settling in the Netherlands in 1970, where he served as professor of piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag) until 2006. Renowned for mastering extraordinarily complex piano literature, Madge gave the first complete performance of Nikos Skalkottas's 32 Piano Pieces in 1979 and the second public performance of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum in 1982. He became the first pianist to record Leopold Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Études and recorded the complete solo piano works of Ferruccio Busoni, alongside album releases including Cathedrals of Sound, The Bach-Busoni Transcriptions, and Iannis Xenakis's Synaphai. In 2005, he was awarded the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in Kraków.
