OF POWER

CURTIS STEWART

Release Date: June 18, 2021

Told through video, violin, verse and electronics, "Of Power" is a contemporary "coming of agency" story - Grappling with themes of resilience, resistance and the nature of power, Curtis Stewart weaves a confessional narrative, through the lens of a Black man searching for authenticity in classical music - Original compositions and virtuosic re-compositions of Charlie Parker, J.S. Bach, John Coltrane, Eugene Ysaye, Stevie Wonder, Childish Gambino, and Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson serve as vehicles for a post-classical visual album inspired by personal adversity and bolstered by the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

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TRACK LIST

1. Louisiana Blues Strut - A Cakewalk
Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson
2. Improvisation 1 on Paganini Caprice #11
Curtis Stewart / Nicolò Paganini
3. Improvisation 2 on Paganini Caprice #11 for Violin and Electronics
Curtis Stewart / Nicolò Paganini
4. Scrapple
Curtis Stewart / Charlie Parker
5. Lift Every Voice and Sing
Curtis Stewart / J. Rosamond Johnson / James Weldon Johnson
6. 8:46 - Ysaye Solo Sonata #2 - i. Obsession
Curtis Stewart / Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe / J.S. Bach
7. SHOOK - Sum1
Curtis Stewart / Meg Pickarski
8. StayWoke.
Curtis Stewart
9. Mangas
Elektra Kurtis-Stewart
10. Magic Might
Curtis Stewart
11. #HerName
Curtis Stewart / J.S. Bach
12. Until the Glass Breaks
Curtis Stewart
13. Beethoven 2020
Curtis Stewart / Ludvig Van Beethoven
14. Our Past is a Privilege
Curtis Stewart / Charles Mingus
15. After the Rain
Curtis Stewart / John Coltrane
16. Dont you worry 'bout a THANG
Curtis Stewart / Stevie Wonder
17. Isn't She Lovely
Curtis Stewart / Stevie Wonder

ABOUT CURTIS STEWART

Grammy nominated violinist Curtis Stewart enjoys an eclectic career bouncing between various realms of music: from MTV specials with Wyclef Jean and sold out shows at Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, and Seal, to stints at the Kennedy center with the Jimmy Heath Big Band and performance installations at the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Curtis has performed as a classical soloist at Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall, as a special guest soloist/curator with the New York Philharmonic, made chamber music appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Newport Jazz Festival. His ensembles PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail realize a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures and musics. Curtis has worked with today's forward thinking musicians including Henry Threadgill, Alicia Hall-Moran and Jason Moran, Mark O’Connor, members of International Contemporary Ensemble, Billy Childs, Diane Monroe, the JACK quartet, members of Snarky Puppy, Don Byron, Linda Oh, Ari Hoenig, Matt Wilson, among many others. An avid teacher, he has taught Chamber Music and “Cultural Equity and Performance Practice” at the Juilliard School, directed several orchestras and levels of music theory at the Laguardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts for ten years, and is currently the Chamber Music and New Juilliard Ensemble Manager at the Juilliard School, in New York City. Curtis graduated magna cum laude from the Eastman School of Music with a BA of Mathematics from the University of Rochester.

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