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 is a composer who mixes his own works into his concerts and recordings. An example was his 2025 release Mendelssohn, Goodyear, Schumann on the Orchid Classics label.
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 h...