PAUL STEWART Since his orchestral début with the Toronto Symphony in 1981, Paul Stewart has been recognized as one of Canada’s most distinguished musicians. As a soloist, and in collaboration with such artists as James Ehnes, Maureen Forrester, Ben Heppner, Jessye Norman, Mstislav Rostropovich and Pinchas Zukerman, he has performed throughout Canada, the United States (including Carnegie Hall, New York and the Kennedy Center, Washington), Mexico, Europe and Asia, and is heard frequently with major orchestras in Canada and abroad. In 1996 he made two notable appearances: an acclaimed solo recital in London’s Wigmore Hall (broadcast by the BBC), and an enthusiastically received performance of Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto at the Moscow Conservatory, broadcast throughout Russia and subsequently released on a best-selling CD.
His discography includes works by Beethoven, Britten, Liszt, Prokofiev, Ravel, Schubert and Strauss, and he is currently recording the complete piano sonatas of Nicolas Medtner for Naxos. Paul Stewart is a Professor of Piano at the Université de Montréal, Canada.
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