Stop the Clock
An immersive piano concert and musical narrative
About Stop the Clock
Stop the Clock is a conceptual piano performance created by Canadian pianist and composer Becky Reesor.
Designed as a narrative concert experience, the show invites audiences to slow down and reflect on their relationship with time in an increasingly accelerated world. Through original compositions, immersive sound, and visual elements, Stop the Clock unfolds as an intimate yet powerful journey that resonates emotionally and visually.
Rather than a traditional piano recital, Stop the Clock functions as a complete artistic production. The performance adapts to a range of venues, from concert halls and festivals to churches and alternative spaces, while maintaining a strong and recognisable artistic identity.
This is a show created for attentive listening, reflection, and deep audience engagement.
The Experience
Immersive piano performance built around a strong conceptual arc
Original compositions from the Stop the Clock album
Visual and spatial elements adapted to each venue
A reflective, emotionally engaging concert experience
Suitable for festivals, concert series, churches, and arts-focused programming
Carrer Highlight
Featured on CBC Radio’s Now or Never for the composition and performance on a burning piano
Stop the Clock toured across Quebec and Ontario, including:
Hudson Music Festival
Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal)
Conrad Grebel University College
Produced and recorded the album Stop the Clock and published the accompanying piano book
Music Director for the arts-forward Iona Abbey, Isle of Iona, Scotland
Producer and director of The Lab, an experimental house concert series exploring new ways audiences engage with classical music
Performed alongside Canadian award-winning and innovative artists including Sammy Duke, Alysha Brilla, Janice Jo Lee, Ariel Posen, Haitham Hadar, and Lindsay Connelly
Bio
Soulful, expansive pianist.
Becky Reesor ignites the senses—connects you to your soul, body and psyche. Canadian classical-crossover pianist, composer, and immersive artist, she is known for blending her folk-inflected classical core with jazz and electronic influences to create vivid, sensory-rich experiences that feed the soul, and leave audiences nourished.
Listeners describe her performances as “an escape from the noise of the outside world,” as music that “brings peace amidst the chaos.”
Her latest album, tour and piano book, Stop the Clock (2023), captures fleeting moments in and alongside the natural world, both dark and light. Stage highlights across Ontario and Quebec include the Hudson Music Festival, Conrad Grebel University College and Montreal's Christ Church Cathedral.
Her innovative work includes a CBC Now or Never-featured commission for burning piano, musical direction at the historical Iona Abbey in Scotland, and the founding of Becky Reesor Music: international online piano studio of students, learning to speak music as a language.
From the time she can remember, art has always been Becky’s language. She hid herself away to sew, fill sketchbooks, write songs and choir arrangements, and dance to feel energy flow through her. Those creative impulses faded as she dedicated herself to the piano until one day in 2020, while preparing a move, she came across an old painting: her first self-portrait from high school. In it, she had painted herself as pianist, singer, dancer, and audience all at once.
“It wasn’t until years later, when I found the painting,” she says, “that I realized—yes, I’m a pianist… and I’m still that person.”
Now, through every performance, Reesor invites listeners into a multi-art space where they can meet music — and in doing so, meet themselves. Through this process, listeners continue their own journey of knowing, healing, and grounding in self, contributing to the healing of the world we all share.
"It's just really beautiful. The music, the projections, the words… the whole thing." - Esther-Ruth Teel/Oasis Musicale
Her upcoming collaboration with Scottish writer Susan Lindsay and the Greater Moncton Scottish Association (2026) explores the nature of cultural perspectives across continents through piano, prose, and film.
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Get In Touch
For bookings or general enquiries, get in touch using the form on the right.
becky.bookings@beckyreesormusic.com