Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear to conduct master classes and be involved in the Oscar Peterson School of Music in new role with the Royal Conservatory of Music
The Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has upcoming concerts with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and in Toronto, where, on Nov. 27 at Koerner Hall, he’ll perform the world premiere of his newGoodyear would do well to make himself comfortable at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s concert venue, Koerner Hall. The 43-year-old pianist and composer has just been appointed the conservatory’s first ever artist in residence.
I was introduced to it as a youngster. I saw a concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra when I was five or six. They were playing Ravel’s orchestration. I had no idea it was a piano work until a few years later. I learned it when I was a teenager, but finally brought my interpretation publicly a few years ago. It’s a piece I always wanted to record, as well as other pieces on the album, including Jennifer Higdon’s, as well as two Debussy works and two of mine. They are all inspired by Liszt.
Liu performed a full concerto at the Chopin competition. Afterward he said the best part of winning was that he’d never have to compete again.
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