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Pianist and composer, Patrick Stoyanovich, brings a rich
musical experience to contemporary culture. Educated from
age nine as a pianist and horn player, Mr. Stoyanovich was
honored numerous times as outstanding soloist while still
a teenager and began to perform as a professional pianist
by age fourteen.
His formal education began at The University of Michigan School
of Music graduating with a Bachelor’s of Arts specializing
in Piano Performance. He was awarded a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship in Jazz studying with noted New York
City jazz pianist Richard Beirach. During this time, Mr. Stoyanovich
also won the international competition: John W. Work III Prize
for Composition.
Mr. Stoyanovich continued his education at Yale University
School of Music as a student of Jacob Druckman and was awarded
the Irving Gilmore Fellowship for the Outstanding Composition
Student and the John Day Jackson Prize for Chamber Music.
He graduated from Yale with the graduate degree of Master’s
of Composition with High Honors.
For post-graduate work, Mr. Stoyanovich studied at Le Academie
des Americaines Conservatoire de Musique in Fontainebleau,
France on a composition scholarship. There, he had the honor
of studying in a select composition seminar lead by noted
American musician Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Stoyanovich’s
composition teachers include three Pulitzer Prize winners:
William Bolcom, Jacob Druckman and Leslie Basset as well as
other noted American musicians such as Gunther Schuller.
Early in his career, Mr. Stoyanovich was named Composer-in-Residence
for the Champlain Valley Symphony Orchestra (NY) and served
as adjunct professor of music at Burlington College in Vermont
and The State University of New York: Plattsburgh. In the
early 1990’s, his music was published by Margun Music
(now G. Schirmer) when Gunther Schuller took note of Mr. Stoyanovich’s
works. Currently his compositions are published by his own
business, METRO CITY MUSIC.
The orchestral compositions of Stoyanovich have been performed
by a number of orchestras including the Pacific Symphony Orchestra
(CA), Florida Orchestra (FL), Spokane Symphony Orchestra (WA),
Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra (CA), Northwest Chamber Orchestra
(WA), Bremerton Symphony Association (WA), Champlain Valley
Symphony Orchestra (NY), Helena Symphony Orchestra (MT) and
Butte Symphony Association (MT). His chamber and solo works
have been performed in Canterbury, England’s English
Double Reed Society International Festival, on the Hungarian
National Radio, at Carnegie Mellon University and on numerous
recitals around our country from New Haven, CT to Los Angeles,
CA.
He was honored with the prestigous Al Smith Composition Fellow
by the State of Kentucky and worked closely with arts groups
in that area including the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra
and the Lexington Ballet Company. Due to his interest in young
musicians, numerous youth and honor’s orchestras have
performed and commissioned him including the Cincinnati Symphony
Youth Orchestra, Southern California Honors Orchestra and
the Wisconsin State Honors Orchestra.
Patrick is active as a performer frequently appearing in solo
recitals and for arts organizations such as the Jazz Bakery
in Los Angeles, the Northwest Piano Series and Steinway Recital
Series at Sherman Clay in Seattle. He has appeared as jazz
piano soloist at several jazz festivals including Detroit-Montreaux,
Bright Moments (MA), Vermont Jazz and the Banff Jazz Festival
in Canada. As a concert pianist, he has appeared as soloist
with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra,
Bremerton Symphony Association and with his own ensembles.
As a jazz pianist, he continues to perform around the area
as well as with noted performers such as former “Tonight
Show” bassist Robert Hurst.
As an educator, Mr. Stoyanovich served as adjunct professor
of music theory, jazz history, keyboard harmony and jazz theory
at California State University: Fullerton and at the University
of California: Los Angeles, while also teaching privately
for a number of years.
Patrick lives on Bainbridge Island, WA with his wife, Elizabeth
(who is a conductor and advocate of his works) and their two
daughters: Antonia Barbara and Sophia Isabelle. |
