Jesse Stewart

When: 
Sunday, November 10th, 19h30

Jesse Stewart, percussion

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Jesse Stewart is an award-winning composer, improviser, percussionist, visual artist, instrument builder, researcher, writer, and educator dedicated to re-imagining the spaces between artistic disciplines.

As a musician, he works primarily in the areas of jazz, new music, and free improvisation.  He has performed and/or recorded with musicians including George Lewis, Roswell Rudd, Evan Parker, Bill Dixon, William Parker, Pauline Oliveros, Hamid Drake, Joe McPhee, Gordon Monahan, Maggie Nicols, Evan Ziporyn, the Penderecki String Quartet, Malcolm Goldstein, Jandek, Michael Snow, David Mott, and many others. He is a member of Stretch Orchestra (with Kevin Breit and Matt Brubeck), a group that won the 2012 “Instrumental Album of the Year” JUNO Award for its self-titled debut recording. Jesse also performs regularly as a soloist and with the Jesse Stewart Ensemble, a group formed to play his own compositions for instruments of his own design. His music has been performed at festivals throughout Canada, in Europe and in the United States.
His playing has been described as “truly exciting” (Musicworks 76), “exceptional” (Cadence Oct. 2002), “phenomenal” (Cadence Nov. 1999), and “ingenious” (Exclaim! June 2006).  In a 2002 review, Texas-based music critic Frank Rubolino described him as “…one of the finest young drummers and percussionists on the scene today” (One Final Note Summer/Fall 2002).