We are thrilled to have Linda Gould, a pioneer of stretto pianos, pianist, and entrepreneur join us with a video concert featuring her adventurous programming and performing, her sister, Susan, her troupe of Jazz pros, and stretto festival pianist Eliana Yi who performed at Linda’s live concert with her in 2024.
Program
Linda Gould
March Past from the Canadiana Suite by Oscar Peterson
Eliana Yi
Suicide in an Airplane by Leo Ornstein
Linda and Susan Gould
Innamorata by PDQ Bach
Concerto in Jazz by Donald Phillips
Linda Gould
March Past from Oscar Peterson's Canadiana Suite
with Bob Brown on drums, Don Cox on bass, Dave Paulson on the big keys, and Linda Gould on Narrow Keys
Linda Gould is a performer, music educator, and advocate for narrow key pianos. She serves as the CEO of Narrow Key Pianos, where she recently led the development of Athena, a narrow key digital piano featuring a 5.5-inch octave. Under her direction, Narrow Key Pianos has distributed over 300 instruments worldwide in 2025, nearly tripling the number of narrow key pianos available to performers and educators.
More information about Athena can be found at narrowkeypianos.com
Please see Eliana Yi’s festival page where her concert will be linked to read her bio.
Notes about the program from Linda:
1. Eliana Yi playing Suicide in an Airplane at our music room last year. She explains it and plays it beautifully on my Yamaha fitted with D.S. 5.5 keys.
2. Linda and Susan Gould playing Innamorata by PDQ Bach. A tongue-in-cheek performance of the first movement of this work. Innamorata was a duet that PDQ Bach wrote to get close to a girl he wanted to get to know better. Lots of arm crossing, etc. Sue and I play it on two pianos in the fashion of two sisters poking at each other musically. Sue is on a Yamaha concert grand with regular or BIG keys, as I now call them, and I am on my Yamaha grand with D.S. 5.5 keys. We also have a bit of preamble in the video.
3. Linda and Susan Gould on the same two pianos (Susan has a reach of a 10th on regular keys) playing Concerto in Jazz by Donald Phillips. a delightful, little-known American piece written for Piano and Concert band. Sue plays the orchestra part on her piano. There is a preamble story to this piece, too. How I was passed over by the band in high school because my hands were too small to play the piece. Five years later, my large-handed sister got to play it with the high school band. I was envious! Now, finally, I get to play it too!
4. Linda Gould playing March Past from Oscar Peterson's Canadiana Suite. Performed at our Canada Day party this year. Linda plays the Athena 5.5 digital piano with Bob Brown on drums, Don Cox on bass, and Dave Paulson on the Big keys.