Eric Robert Stewart’s (b. 1985) music has been performed throughout North America and Europe by such artists as the Talea Ensemble, the Cambridge Modern Orchestra, the Long Island Festival Orchestra, the Island Symphony Orchestra, renowned concert organist Felix Hell, and the multi-Grammy Award-winning Gregg Smith Singers. His compositions have been premiered at festivals including Aspen, FUBiS (Berlin), CASMI (Prague), and June in Buffalo.
As a conductor, Eric has collaborated with ensembles including the Argento Ensemble, the Gregg Smith Singers, the New Conductors Orchestra, the gamUT Contemporary Ensemble (Toronto, Canada), the Harbor Opera Company (Baltimore, MD), the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble/Baltimore Baroque Band, and members of the American String Quartet and the New York Philharmonic. He has appeared at such venues as Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), the Four Seasons Centre of the Canadian Opera Company (Bradshaw Amphitheatre), and has been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC).
Eric was a finalist in the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition, as well as for the ASCAP Morton Gould Award. He was the recipient of the Arthur Plettner Fellowship from the University of Toronto, the Susan and Ford Schumann Scholarship from the Aspen Music Festival, and the Louis Cheslock Memorial Scholarship from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Recordings of Eric are available on the Albany and MSR Classics Labels.
Eric holds degrees in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of Music (B.M., M.M.) and the University of Toronto (D.M.A.). He currently lives in New York City. He serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Island Symphony Orchestra and the Long Island Festival Orchestra. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Mahler Festival of Long Island and the Director of Orchestral Studies at Long Island University- Post, where he also teaches composition, orchestration, and aural skills.