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Violinist and Composer Curtis Stewart Releases New Album 'Seasons of Change'

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by: Josh Sharpe | June 2025

Six-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart has released Seasons of Change, a recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on Bright Shiny Things. 

Seasons of Change serves as the frame for an Afrofuturist meditation on climate change, class, and the nature of digital memory. The album blends classical forms with fragmented digital soundscapes that incorporate the recorded voices of unhoused populations Stewart encountered in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as newly written texts. Stewart prolifically performs his own compositions to create a multi-track, layered ensemble and is joined on the album for cadenzas in the first, second, and fourth movements by three spectacular violinists – Lara St. John, Njioma Grievous, and Charles Yang.