Stewart Goodyear
Pianist Stewart Goodyear has performed with orchestras around North America and beyond. He is also known for his periodic performances of all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas within a single day.
Goodyear was born in February of 1978 in Toronto. Goodyear's father died before he was born, but he inherited his father's record collection, which included works by Beethoven, and when he heard those, although he was quite young, he resolved to become a classical musician. Goodyear attended an all-male choir school in Toronto, taking piano lessons and general music instruction. He attended the Glenn Gould School at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, graduating at 15. That year, he appeared on the American Piano Classics album issued by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. He went on for a bachelor's degree to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where his teachers included Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, and Claude Frank. Goodyear earned a master's degree at the Juilliard School in New York, studying with Oxana Yablonskaya.
Goodyear has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, as well as orchestras around Canada, among many other groups. In the early 2010s, he recorded a complete set of Beethoven's sonatas for the Marquis Classics label, and he has continued to record for that label as well as for Steinway & Sons and for other labels. He has made a specialty of playing all 32 Beethoven sonatas in the space of a single day, a feat he has accomplished at Koerner Hall in Toronto, the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, and the Mondavi Center in California, among other venues. Goodyear is also active as a composer and has written a Baby Shark Fugue, a piano-and-orchestra work called the Callaloo Suite, and a set of variations on The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby. He admires Leonard Bernstein as a performer who draws on both classical and vernacular sources, and he often improvises his own cadenzas in concerto performances. Goodyear issued an album mixing his works with those of Gershwin in 2019. He appeared on the U.S. Public Broadcasting System program Now Hear This, and he released a complete set of Beethoven's piano concertos with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2020. The following year, he moved to the Bright Shiny Things label for the album Phoenix, featuring works by Debussy and Mussorgsky.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo & Piano Sonata - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Stewart Goodyear, Chineke! Orchestra, Wayne Marshall
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on 7 Jun 2019
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Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Catalyst Quartet, Stewart Goodyear, Anthony McGill
Chamber Music - Released by Azica Records on 5 Feb 2021
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by Marquis Classics on 25 Sep 2012
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For Glenn Gould
Classical - Released by Sono Luminus on 23 Mar 2018
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Arr. S. Goodyear)
Classical - Released by Steinway and Sons on 25 Sep 2015
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos
Stewart Goodyear, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Andrew Constantine
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on 13 Mar 2020
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American Piano Classics
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Stewart Goodyear, William Tritt
Classical - Released by Telarc on 26 Jan 1993
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Clara, Robert, Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley, Stewart Goodyear
Classical - Released by Les Productions Analekta Inc. on 22 Sep 2023
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Phoenix
Classical - Released by Bright Shiny Things on 8 Oct 2021
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Ravel: Piano Music
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on 5 May 2017
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2
Philadelphia Orchestra, Stewart Goodyear, David Bilger
Classical - Released by The Philadelphia Orchestra on 11 Jan 2010
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Stewart Goodyear, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Heiko-Mathias Forster
Classical - Released by Steinway and Sons on 14 Apr 2015
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Tchaikovsky & Grieg: Piano Concertos
Stewart Goodyear, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Bogunia
Classical - Released by Steinway and Sons on 10 Jun 2014
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Beethoven: Favorite Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by Marquis Classics on 16 Sep 2016
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Classical - Released by Marquis Classics on 5 Oct 2010
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Diabelli Variations
Classical - Released by Marquis Classics on 2 Sep 2014
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La Cathedral Engloutie
Classical - Released by Bright Shiny Things on 10 Sep 2021
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Pictures at an Exhibition- The Great Gate of Kiev
Classical - Released by Bright Shiny Things on 27 Aug 2021
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Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on 16 Apr 2021
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Beethoven: The Middle Sonatas
Classical - Released by Marquis Classics on 13 Mar 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo