John Stetch

John Stechishin, better known as John Stetch or John Julian (born 1966 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian jazz pianist. He is well known for having been nominated for several Juno Awards.

Early life Stetch's family is ethnically Ukrainian, and as a boy, Stetch played in ensembles at Ukrainian weddings and sang in community choirs. He studied reed instruments early on but concentrated on piano from his teenage years onward. After graduating from McGill University in 1991, he relocated to New York City.

Career Stetch's professional career has included performing and with Ed Jackson, Jan Jarczyk, Chris Kase, Rufus Reid, Akira Tana, Alain Trudel, Mark Turner, and Johannes Weidenmuller.

Stetch won the Du Maurier Grand Prix at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1998, was second place in the 1993 Thelonious Monk Composer's Competition, and has been nominated for six Juno Awards in jazz. Stetch was a faculty member at Cornell University and at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music.

Discography

Rectangle Man (Terra Nova, 1992) Carpathian Blues (Terra Nova, 1994) Stetching Out (Terra Nova, 1996) Kolomeyka Fantasy (Global Village, 1996) Green Grove (Justin Time, 1999) Heavens Of A Hundred Days (Justin Time, 2000) Ukrainianism (Justin Time, 2002) Standards (Justin Time, 2003) Exponentially Monk (Justin Time, 2004) Bruxin (Justin Time, 2006) TV Trio (2008) Fabled States (Addo Records, 2011) Off With The Cuffs (Addo Records, 2013) Improvisations (2015) Ballads (2019) Black Sea Suite (2019)