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Steuart Goodwin has been a musician since the age of 9, having studied cornet, piano, organ, horn, and composition, and he has been fascinated from early childhood with the sounds and mechanism of pipe organs. After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Redlands, Steuart won a Fulbright Grant to study organ building in the Netherlands. Upon returning home to California, he started Goodwin Pipe Organs and has since built six new organs, eight essentially new organs using some parts from older instruments, and two restorations of 19th century organs. Steuart plays horn in the Redlands Community Orchestra and also serves as the board vice-president.

The RCO premiered Steuart's new piece, Morceau, at our March 8, 2015 concert. Morceau is a word referring to "a short musical or literary work". About this work, Steuart says, "My goal was to write idiomatically for the various instruments, keeping the work relatively easy to learn and to play. I felt that a great deal of twentieth century music was audience unfriendly so I wanted to write something audiences could enjoy upon a first hearing. At the same time I hoped to make the piece complex enough in form, counterpoint and orchestration to appeal to those with musical training."

To hear more of Steuart's music, check out his Youtube channel.

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