Curtis Stewart
Combining omnivory and brilliance. He is a giant…
— The New York Times

A gem of string player, among the excellent musicians whose impressive work contributed to many of the night's high points. 

-Strad Magazine

[Stewart’s] über passionate and virtuosic outpourings … grapple with reconciling the classical and jazz camps… it was abundantly clear that Stewart is capable of practically anything on his instrument. He throws his whole body and soul into a performance.

-Downbeat Magazine

Credit: Titilayo Ayangade

Four-time
GRAMMY-nominated violinist & composer
Curtis Stewart translates stories
of American self determination to the
concert stage.

Tearing down the facade of “classical violinist,” Stewart is in constant pursuit of his musical authenticity, treating art as a battery for realizing citizenship.

As a solo violinist, composer, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, professor at The Juilliard School, and member of award-winning ensembles PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail, he realizes a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures and musics.


Season Highlights

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Season Highlights -


September 2023:
World Premiere Recording of the Julia Perry Violin Concerto,
with the GRAMMY Award-winning Experiential Orchestra
(March 2024 release on Bright Shiny Things - Perry Centennial)

October 2023:
NYC Premiere of Toward America with The Knights at Carnegie Hall

January 2024:
Coleridge-Taylor / Stewart 24 Negro Melodies -
Soloist with the Virginia Symphony

March 2024:
Soloist in World Premiere of Stewart’s Resonance Violin Concerto + of Love. presented
by Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Music Now

of Love. with the Oregon Symphony -
Soloist on Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright

April 2024:
Soloist in Seasons of Change with the Phoenix Symphony,
New Recompositions of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

 


“Stewart pans for solid gold, thus revealing impulses trapped inside millennia of sediment.
This blazing violinist has made an indelible mark, shaking the cotton from its prison with gusts of innovation”
All About Jazz

“he shows his audience the colors inside of himself—color(s) not yet invented.
Far from self-indulgent, it is self-revelatory. It is vulnerable. It is creation.”
JazzTimes

“Holds his audiences “spellbound” with a “warm, clear sound, sparkling rhythmic energy, soulful
improvisation, and prodigious technique.”
– New Amsterdam Times