[2] He studied reed instruments early on but concentrated on piano from his teenage years onward.
[3] Stetch's professional career has included performing and with Ed Jackson, Jan Jarczyk, Chris Kase, Rufus Reid, Akira Tana, Alain Trudel, Mark Turner, and Johannes Weidenmuller.
Stetch won the Du Maurier Grand Prix at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1998, was second place in the 1993 Thelonious Monk Composer's Competition, and has been nominated for six Juno Awards in jazz.
[4] Stetch was a faculty member at Cornell University and at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music.
He has since been suspended by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music during investigations.