Born in Paris, France (1985), Saxophonist Aaron Stewart has appeared in the United States and abroad in venues that include the International Saxophone Symposium in Washington, D.C., The Academy of Music in Philadelphia, The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, the Perelman Theater, Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Holywell Music Room at Oxford University, The Kitchen, NYC, and Carnegie Hall. Mr. Stewart has been involved in classical and contemporary music performances in Philadelphia since 2007, and has performed a broad range of repertoire with various ensembles at The Curtis Institute, featured with Symphony in C, NJ, as well as the Philadelphia Ballet. In 2008 he was called to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Stewart has devoted much of his artistic energy to premiering new works and collaborating with internationally acclaimed composers establishing himself as one of the most sought-after contemporary saxophonists in Philadelphia. Most recently Mr. Stewart has appeared as soloist for Philadelphia Fringe and Bowerbird events and is a founding member of the Arcana New Music Ensemble whose Julius Eastman retrospective (2018) has been announced as Arts Sections top picks and reviewed by the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition to solo performances on a Luciano Berio Symposium (2016) and performance-lectures on American Minimalism (2019) and Spectral Music (2020) at The Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Stewart is a recipient of the Tuttle Creative Residency (2019) at Haverford College. In 2022 he presented on saxophone extended techniques at Bennington College, VT, in collaboration with the department of ethnomusicology. Mr. Stewart currently teaches woodwinds for the School District of Philadelphia and is Artist Faculty of Saxophone at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ. Mr. Stewart’s major teachers include Lynn Klock, Gilles Tressos, and Marshall Taylor.