Geoffrey Conquer is a versatile and dynamic Toronto-based pianist. He was a 2016-17 Rebanks Family Fellow at the Glenn Gould School, a two-time first prize winner of the McGill Symphony Concerto Competition, the second prize winner of the 2015 Siegfried Weishaupt International Piano Competition and a laureate of the Canadian Music Competition.

Passionate for collaboration and contemporary music, he recently appeared as a collaborative pianist in the Royal Conservatory of Music’s 2021 Violin Series publication and performed Claude Vivier’s Pulau Dewata with the UofT Percussion Ensemble.

Upcoming projects include performing in Imagined Sounds presented by New Music Concerts and Schumann’s Piano Quintet presented by Durham Youth Orchestra in Whitby, ON.

Geoffrey is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Toronto where he studies piano performance with Jamie Parker. He is the recipient of the Alice and Armen Matheson Graduate Scholarship, the Marilyn Cook Graduate Scholarship, and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He holds a M.Mus and B.Mus from McGill University where he studied with Marina Mdivani, a pupil of Emil Gilels. Through master classes, he received musical guidance from Daniel Pollack, Jacques Rouvier, Martha Argerich, Leon Fleisher, John Perry and many others.

Geoffrey proudly enjoys his work with the next generations of pianists. He is a faculty member at The Royal Conservatory’s Phil and Eli Taylor Academy, group piano instructor at the University of Toronto, maintains a private piano studio in Scarborough, ON, and is an active adjudicator across Ontario.

For more, go to www.geoffreyconquer.com.