Daniel Stewart, recipient of the 2010 Aspen Music Festival's James Conlon Conducting Prize, has established himself as a Conductor, Composer and Concert Violist, performing extensively in over 40 countries. He has served as Cover Conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony and the New World Symphony, while assisting conductors Thomas Adès, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, David Robertson, Robert Spano and Michael Tilson Thomas. At the invitation of James Levine, Mr. Stewart participated in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's most recent Assistant Conductor Audition and was selected as one of three finalists.

Immediately after graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Stewart was engaged to direct the Curtis Opera Theater's 2010/2011 season opening production of La Tragédie de Carmen. He has also prepared Wozzeck, The Rake's Progress and Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Curtis Opera Theater and Le nozze di Figaro and Falstaff for the Aspen Opera Theater Company.

Mr. Stewart has worked closely with contemporary composers such as the late Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Adams and particularly Thomas Adès, whom he assisted for the duration of his four concert "Aspects of Adès" festival with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in March/April, 2011. In May, Mr. Stewart served as Assistant Conductor with the Opera Company of Philadelphia for the US Premiere production of Hans Werner Henze's Phaedra.