Chilly Gonzales, Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer currently living in Europe, is known
as much for the intimate piano touch of best-selling albums Solo Piano and Solo Piano II as for his
showmanship and composition for award-winning stars. "Gonzo", as he is known to close
collaborators, aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with classical and jazz training but
with the attitude of a rapper.
Chilly Gonzales holds the Guinness World Record for the longest solo concert at over 27 hours. He
performs and writes songs with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others. With Never Stop,
Chilly Gonzales composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad 2 campaign. In 2014 he won a
Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk’s Best Album of the Year and composed the best-selling
book of easy piano pieces Re-Introduction Etudes. With his last album Chambers, Chilly Gonzales
devoted himself to finding a modern take on chamber music.
Gonzales is also a respected cultural commentator and “musical scientist”, as seen in his hit web series
Pop Music Masterclass (WDR in Germany and CBC in Canada), BBC Radio 1 documentary Classical
Connections, The History of Music on Arte and Apple Music's Beats1 radio show Music's Cool with
Chilly Gonzales in which Gonzales's unique analysis introduces listeners to the theory and fun of entire
musical genres through the work of one exemplary artist in a 2-hour monthly broadcast. He also writes
newspaper and magazine opinion pieces in The Guardian, i-D Magazine, Clash Magazine and others,
and is involved in conferences, keynote addresses and awards ceremonies for the likes of ZEITmagazin,
Orange, the Junos or lit.Cologne international literature festival.
2018 sees the cinema release of Shut Up and Play the Piano, a career retrospective documentary
directed by Philip....... more
Chilly Gonzales, Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer currently living in Europe, is known
as much for the intimate piano touch of best-selling albums Solo Piano and Solo Piano II as for his
showmanship and composition for award-winning stars. "Gonzo", as he is known to close
collaborators, aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with classical and jazz training but
with the attitude of a rapper.
Chilly Gonzales holds the Guinness World Record for the longest solo concert at over 27 hours. He
performs and writes songs with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others. With Never Stop,
Chilly Gonzales composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad 2 campaign. In 2014 he won a
Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk’s Best Album of the Year and composed the best-selling
book of easy piano pieces Re-Introduction Etudes. With his last album Chambers, Chilly Gonzales
devoted himself to finding a modern take on chamber music.
Gonzales is also a respected cultural commentator and “musical scientist”, as seen in his hit web series
Pop Music Masterclass (WDR in Germany and CBC in Canada), BBC Radio 1 documentary Classical
Connections, The History of Music on Arte and Apple Music's Beats1 radio show Music's Cool with
Chilly Gonzales in which Gonzales's unique analysis introduces listeners to the theory and fun of entire
musical genres through the work of one exemplary artist in a 2-hour monthly broadcast. He also writes
newspaper and magazine opinion pieces in The Guardian, i-D Magazine, Clash Magazine and others,
and is involved in conferences, keynote addresses and awards ceremonies for the likes of ZEITmagazin,
Orange, the Junos or lit.Cologne international literature festival.
2018 sees the cinema release of Shut Up and Play the Piano, a career retrospective documentary
directed by Philip....... more