About Stewart

Stewart grew up in the north west of England and studied music at the Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Contemporary Arts, specialising in contemporary music and theatre. He followed this, after gap of some years with a Masters degree in Music at the Open University (UK) and then a Doctorate of Education in music Education from Logos University International, Florida. He was awarded a PhD in Composition by Central Christian University for a portfolio including his Symphony No. 1.

He has orchestrated and arranged a range of musicals for Bernard J. Taylor and received a nomination for best orchestrations at the San Antonio Theater Awards for his work on The Road to Madness with Karl Logue while his orchestrations for Pride and Prejudice have been performed in both the UK and the USA. As resident composer to Texas Light Opera he contributed arrangements and consultations to various productions as well as additional orchestrations and arrangements towards the new original musical Frogs Legs by Bethany Schwartz for the Overtime Theatre, San Antonio.

Nearer to home, he has arranged or composed incidental music for several theatres in South Yorkshire and is currently working on not only an adpation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost but a song cycle for female vocalist and piano, Songs in the Key of Our Life, a new original musical in flashback, his Symphony No.2 and a new play, The Reunion.

Enjoy and if you want to, drop me a line!

- Stewart -