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Known for imagination, a graceful, elegant style, and
exquisite technique, twenty-five year old pianist, Stewart
Goodyear, is an accomplished young artist whose career
is clearly on the rise.
Some highlights of his upcoming schedule include his
debut with the Atlanta Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Cincinnati
Symphony, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Stewart will
also perform with the Toledo Symphony, Memphis Symphony,
Fort Worth Symphony, and will return to Montreal for
performances with the Orchestra. He will also perform
in recital at Symphony Hall in Chicago.
This past season, Stewart made his debut with the Chicago
Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
at the Hollywood Bowl, with Gerard Schwarz, and the
Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Pinchas Zukerman. Stewart
made his European debut in Berlin with the Jeunesses
Musicales World Orchestra and made his London debut
with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Stewart
also returned for performances with the San Francisco
Symphony and St. Louis Symphony and performed in recital
at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
In recent seasons, Stewart toured the United States
with the Toronto Symphony led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste
and collaborated with the National Arts Center Orchestra
of Canada led by Pinchas Zukerman and Lawrence Foster.
He also appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, as well as the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra. Following his New York debut with
Emmanuel Krivine and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
in 1999, Stewart was the guest soloist on the final
Japan Tour of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra conducted
by Gerard Schwarz. In addition to the Mostly Mozart
Festival, Stewart has appeared at festivals such as
Caramoor, Santa Fe, and Ravinia.
In addition to his talents as a pianist, Stewart is
a composer and frequently performs his own works, including
his solo piano work, "Variations on 'Eleanor Rigby',”
which premiered at Lincoln Center in New York in August
2000, and his Piano Sonata, both of which receive continual
acclaim by critics and audiences. He has written by
commission for the Toronto Youth Symphony for its 25th
anniversary, as well as for the Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival.
Stewart has been noted for his innovation and is one
of the rare classical musicians to always improvise
his cadenzas when performing concertos from the classical
period. He has been repeatedly praised for both the
inspiring individuality and appreciation of the composer’s
own style that he clearly conveys in every performance.
In fact, in January 2000, after a performance of Mozart’s
Concerto K. 467 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, The
Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: “The cadenzas were
where the real magic was. In them, Goodyear produced
surprising harmonies, turning familiar melodies on their
head by giving them new context. He led back into the
tutti sections in a particularly daring and exhilarating
way with fully formed ideas, keeping the listener guessing
whether the end was really in sight. All the cadenza
material had an improvised feel, and in fact, Goodyear
was writing them as we listened.”
A native of Toronto, Canada, Stewart holds a Masters
Degree from the Juilliard School of Music where he studied
with Oxana Yablonskaya. He also studied at the Curtis
Institute of Music with Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman
and Claude Frank.
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