# John Stetch

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{{Short description|Canadian pianist}}{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = John Stetch
| birth_name        = John Julian Stetchishin
| birth_date        = 1966
| birth_place       = [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), [Alberta](/source/Alberta)
}}

'''John Stechishin''', better known as '''John Stetch''' or '''John Julian''' (born 1966 in [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), [Alberta](/source/Alberta)) is a Canadian [jazz](/source/jazz) pianist and comedian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Stetch |url=https://justin-time.com/collections/john-stetch |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=Justin Time Records |language=en}}</ref> He is well known for impersonating [Justin Trudeau](/source/Justin_Trudeau) and having been nominated for several [Juno Awards](/source/Juno_Awards).

== Early life ==
Stetch's family is ethnically [Ukrainian](/source/Ukraine), and as a boy, Stetch played in ensembles at Ukrainian weddings and sang in community choirs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Stetch, jazz piano |url=https://musicbythesea.ca/portfolio-posts/john-stetch-jazz-piano/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=Music By The Sea |language=en-US}}</ref> He studied reed instruments early on but concentrated on piano from his teenage years onward. After graduating from [McGill University](/source/McGill_University) in 1991, he relocated to [New York City](/source/New_York_City).<ref>{{Cite news |title=John Stetch on Piano Jazz |language=en |work=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2007/03/02/15033698/john-stetch-on-piano-jazz |access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> 

== Career ==
Stetch's professional career has included performing and with Ed Jackson, Jan Jarczyk, Chris Kase, [Rufus Reid](/source/Rufus_Reid), [Akira Tana](/source/Akira_Tana), [Alain Trudel](/source/Alain_Trudel), [Mark Turner](/source/Mark_Turner_(musician)), and Johannes Weidenmuller.

Stetch won the Du Maurier Grand Prix at the [Montreal Jazz Festival](/source/Montreal_Jazz_Festival) in 1998, was second place in the 1993 Thelonious Monk Composer's Competition, and has been nominated for six [Juno Award](/source/Juno_Award)s in jazz.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=http://www.johnstetch.com/bio |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=John Stetch |language=en-US}}</ref> Stetch was a faculty member at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University) and at the [Vancouver Symphony Orchestra](/source/Vancouver_Symphony_Orchestra) School of Music.<ref name=":0" />

In March of 2021, Stetch was investigated for hosting a conspiracist party. Amidst social gathering restrictions due to the [COVID-19](/source/Coronavirus_disease_2019) pandemic, he hosted a gathering in his apartment with approximately 14 people without masks, in close quarters. He has since been suspended by the [Vancouver Symphony Orchestra](/source/Vancouver_Symphony_Orchestra) School of Music during investigations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CityNews |url=https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2021/02/22/pianist-suspended-vso-stetch-covid/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=vancouver.citynews.ca|date=23 February 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Molko |first=David |date=2021-02-25 |title=VSO suspends pianist under investigation by police for allegedly hosting 'unlawful' gathering |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vso-suspends-pianist-under-investigation-by-police-for-allegedly-hosting-unlawful-gathering/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=British Columbia |language=en}}</ref>

==Discography==
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*''Rectangle Man'' (Terra Nova, 1992)
*''Carpathian Blues'' (Terra Nova, 1994)
*''Stetching Out'' (Terra Nova, 1996)
*''Kolomeyka Fantasy'' (Global Village, 1996)
*''Green Grove'' ([Justin Time](/source/Justin_Time_Records), 1999)
*''Heavens Of A Hundred Days'' (Justin Time, 2000)
*''Ukrainianism'' (Justin Time, 2002)
*''Standards'' (Justin Time, 2003)
*''Exponentially Monk'' (Justin Time, 2004)
*''Bruxin<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' (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)

==References==
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*"John Stetch". ''[The New Grove Encyclopedia of Popular Music](/source/The_New_Grove)'' (accessed via Oxford Music Online).

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