Stewart Goodyear was born on February 1978 and is a Canadian concert pianist and composer.
10 Facts About Stewart Goodyear
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Stewart Goodyear never knew his father, who died from cancer a month before Stewart was born.
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Stewart Goodyear has said that hearing Beethoven is what compelled him to be a classical artist.
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Stewart Goodyear was aware of the piano at age three and by four was playing by ear on a toy piano.
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Stewart Goodyear graduated from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at age 15.
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Stewart Goodyear attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, and Claude Frank.
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Stewart Goodyear attended the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Oxana Yablonskaya and earned a master's in piano performance.
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Stewart Goodyear is a contemporary classical musician who improvises cadenzas when performing Classical concertos.
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Stewart Goodyear was inspired by all styles of music, and, just like Beethoven, he defied convention, created his own music, and communicated to audiences of all demographics.
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In 2020, Stewart Goodyear performed on the PBS television program Now Hear This, where Scott Yoo hosted a one-hour segment on Mozart.