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The American bass-baritone, Peter Stewart, has been involved in early music for many years. He has toured and recorded with Pomerium, the Waverly Consort, Concert Royal and Voices of Ascension. He has sung featured roles with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan, with the New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott, and at the international Schuetz Festival under Sir Roger Norrington. Peter helped inaugurate a Bach cantata series with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and was bass soloist for nearly a decade with the Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity series in New York City. He has performed at the Early Music Festivals in Madeira, Regensburg, Utrecht, and Connecticut. He sings regularly at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with Kent Tritle.
Also active in other styles of music, Peter Stewart has created many new works in collaboration with composers. He has toured extensively in Europe, Australia, Asia, and North America with Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in Einstein on the Beach, Monsters of Grace, The White Raven, and La Belle et la Bete, and has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble at the keyboards in Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Anima Mundi. He has recorded the baritone songs of Lee Hoiby for CRI with the composer at the piano. He has also created roles and recorded many new operas for Gavin Bryars/Robert Wilson, Julius Hemphill, Anthony Braxton, Meredith Monk, Fred Ho, Harry Partch, Sir John Tavener, and Hans Werner Henze, ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny, among others.
Peter Stewart teaches singing at Montclair State University. |
