Marathon man: Pianist tackles 32 Beethoven sonatas in five days flat
By Steven Mazey, The Ottawa Citizen
Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear first learned the complete Beethoven sonatas at age 16. He begins the chamberfest series July 27.
Photograph by: Andrew Garn, Ottawa Citizen
Performing one or two concerts? Kidstuff.
Star Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear, the former child prodigy who first performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra at age 12, is taking on nine solo performances at the 2010 Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, in a project that will test his endurance, his memory and his interpretive skills, not to mention his arm and hand muscles.
At this year’s festival, which opens Saturday and will present more than 90 events through Aug. 7, Goodyear will perform the nine concerts in five days flat. His high-profile assignment? Performing all of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, the works that have been called merely “one of the great contributions to the musical art.”
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