[EVENT] Matthew Zachary Returns to the Stage | 30 Year Cancerversary LIVE in NYC 4/28

🧠 🎹 I HAVEN'T PLAYED A SOLO PIANO CONCERT IN 22 YEARS. THAT CHANGES APRIL 28TH IN NYC 🎹 🧠


Brain cancer robbed me of an alternate timeline where, as a classically-trained concert pianist, I would have gone off to UCLA Film School to study composition with the late Jerry Goldsmith.


They told me I'd never play again.


They were wrong.


Thirty years later, I'm still here. Still playing. And I'm asking you personally to be in the room when I return to the stage.


📅 April 28th. 8pm Merkin Concert Hall up by Lincoln Center. 📅


One night. One 9-foot Steinway Model D piano. Stories from the cancer community. And the launch of my first book, "We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America's Healthcare Nightmare."


This is not a gala. Not a conference. It's a homecoming. Patients, advocates, industry allies, and friends I've worked alongside for three decades, all in one room. Some of you I haven't seen in years. Some of you I've never met in person. This is the night that changes.


Six weeks out. One third already sold.


Proud sponsors: Pfizer, Codex Labs, Blueprint Medicines, Daiichi Sankyo, and Spencer's.


Media partners: theSkimm, Scientific American, Everyday Health, and BlackDoctor.org.


I would really like you there.


Tickets ➡️ IN COMMENTS


#WeThePatients #MZ30 #StupidCancer

Matthew Zachary

Matthew Zachary has spent three decades fighting to make the American healthcare system less cruel, organizing millions through advocacy and media. A former concert pianist whose life was turned upside down by brain cancer at just 21, he founded Stupid Cancer, the largest nonprofit for young adults with cancer. He also launched The Stupid Cancer Show, widely regarded as the first healthcare podcast, which later evolved into the award-winning Out of Patients. He produced Cancer Mavericks, a documentary series about the rebel patients who changed modern oncology. He is CEO and Co-Founder of We The Patients, a national movement organizing patients into collective civic power, and the author of We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America’s Healthcare Nightmare (Wiley, May 2026) with Jen Singer.

https://www.matthewzachary.com
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