Biography

Pianist and composer, Patrick Stoyanovich, brings a rich musical experience to contemporary culture. Mr. Stoyanovich has been Composer-in-Residence for Saint James Cathedral in Seattle, Washington and Composer-in-Residence for Saint Cecilia Festival on Bainbridge Island, the latter of which presents recitals and new works for choir and orchestra. He is active as a composer, teacher and performer.

Educated from age nine on piano and horn, as a teenager he was honored numerous times as an outstanding jazz piano soloist and began to perform professionally at age fourteen in Detroit. His formal education began at the University of Michigan School of Music graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance. At the time, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship studying jazz in New York City with Richard Beirach and also was awarded the John W. Work III Prize for Composition in an international competition. Graduate studies were concluded at Yale University as a composition student with Jacob Druckman. Patrick graduated with a Master of Music: Composition with High Honors garnering the Irving Gilmore Fellowship for Outstanding Composition Student and was a full scholarship student. Mr. Stoyanovich’s composition teachers have included three Pulitzer Prize winners: Jacob Druckman, Leslie Basset and William Bolcom; in addition he worked with Leonard Bernstein at Academie des Americaines Conservatoire de Musique in Fontainebleau, France and with Gunther Schuller at Sandpoint Festival.

Patrick is an active pianist frequently appearing in recitals such as the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Northwest Piano Series and Steinway Recital Series at Sherman Clay in Seattle. As a jazz pianist, he was featured in several festivals including Detroit-Montreaux, Bright Moments, Vermont Jazz and Banff Jazz Festival. As concert pianist, he has soloed with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Bremerton Symphony Association, and the Saint Cecilia Festival and Recital Series.

His music is published by G. Schirmer, Northeastern Music Publishers and Metro City Music (the latter which he owns and operates) and has been performed across the US and Europe by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Lake Union Civic Orchestra, Helena Symphony, in Canterbury at the English Double Reed Society and on the Hungarian National Radio. Recent performances have included premieres of the first string quartet at Bowery Poetry NYC, the string duo Field of Blackbirds at the Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado, and the first and second violin sonatas for Great Music LA, Encinitas Music by the Sea, Crocker Art Museum, and the Elebash Recital Series. In 2009 he was named a MacDowell Fellow. His music has been recorded on Bridge, Crystal, Jazzsport and Metro City Music Records. He has taught privately and at the college level for over twenty years including at the UCLA, California State University: Fullerton, SUNY Plattsburgh and Burlington College. He lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.