YMF Adjudicators

Geoffrey Conquer is a versatile and dynamic pianist based in Toronto. Passionate about collaboration and contemporary music, recent performance highlights include Steve Reich’s Sextet with the Esprit Orchestra at TD Music Hall, Pouya Hamidi’s The Battle Within at The Music Gallery and Dobrinka Tabakova’s Suite in Jazz Style with violist Neal Gripp at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Kingston. Geoffrey is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Toronto and the recipient of a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He was a 2016–17 Rebanks Family Fellow at the Glenn Gould School and presented over 300 concerts of chamber music as a touring artist with Lincoln Center Stage. He holds both an M.Mus and B.Mus in Piano Performance from McGill University, where he studied with Marina Mdivani and was a two-time winner of the concerto competition. Currently, Geoffrey enjoys coaching and performing chamber music with the next generation of Canadian classical musicians as a faculty member at the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and The Taylor Academy of The Royal Conservatory.

Geoffrey Conquer - Piano Adjudicator
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