Stewart Goodyear joins The Oasis ahead of his Koerner Hall show with Chineke! Orchestra

Toronto native Stewart Goodyear has captured the world’s attention as a concert pianist, improviser, and composer. Not to mention recording artist.

He graduated from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music at just 15 years old, then went on to Julliard before becoming a headliner on the international classical stage.

He has performed with many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world, including the Chicago Symphony, TSO, and the Grammy Award-winning Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

His recordings include the celebrated Phoenix from 2021, The complete Beethoven Piano Concertos and many other Beethoven projects, For Glenn Gould, a beloved Nutcracker album, and a Gershwin record. His latest arrived over the weekend on Naxos with the Buffalo Philharmonic.

On Saturday, March 18th at Koerner Hall in downtown Toronto. Stewart Goodyear will join up with Chineke! Orchestra to perform his Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite for Piano and Orchestra. Chineke! is the London-based and ground-breaking European ensemble of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians. It has inspired the classical music world over the last 8 years, putting out 3 albums in 2022 and playing the Proms.

The repertoire includes music Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African American composer Florence B. Price, and Stewart’s Callaloo – A Caribbean Suite for Piano and Orchestra.

Stewart’s recently contributed as a pianist on a new album that was released on March 10th – Adolphus Hailstork’s First Piano Concerto/Danny Elfman’s The Violin Concerto “Eleven Eleven”. The album can be found here.

Listen to Mark Wigmore’s interview with Stewart Goodyear below:

For tickets and more information, head to www.rcmusic.com