Daniel Stewart is the Music Director of the Santa Cruz Symphony, and former Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
The recipient of the 2010 Aspen Music Festival's James Conlon Conducting Prize, he has conducted leading orchestras around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Hessischer Rundfunk Orchester, Frankfurt Opern Orchestra, Boston Ballet, New World Symphony, and the Opera companies of the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, and Aspen Festival. In 2021, at the invitation of Esa-Pekka Salonen, he made his subscription debut with the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
His compositions have been performed at venues including the Aspen Music Festival, Tribeca New Music Festival, and Verbier Festival.
An accomplished violist, Mr. Stewart has performed in over 40 countries.