Jocelyn Stewart

INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL DEPARTMENT - piano

Pianist and harpsichordist Jocelyn Stewart has had a varied career as soloist and chamber and orchestral performer. She has toured as concerto soloist and continuo player throughout South America; performed as soloist and with chamber groups on series in many U.S. cities, including Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Detroit; and has performed in Holland numerous times. In New York, Ms. Stewart has performed on the premier early music series Music Before 1800 and as soloist and in ensembles at Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Miller Theater.

As a baroque specialist Ms. Stewart has presented lecture recitals at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Southeastern and Midwestern Historical Keyboard Societies, the American Recorder Society, and the Bach-Schütz Society. She presented baroque chamber music to New York City schoolchildren over the course of one year through the Young Audiences program and gives workshops in harpsichord and baroque performance practice to various age groups and levels.

Ms. Stewart is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, where she teaches harpsichord to undergraduate and graduate pianists and organists, and historical performance practice to all instruments and voice, and she is also currently on the harpsichord faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University. She founded and formerly directed the harpsichord department of the Precollege Division at Manhattan School of Music. She performs frequently with students and faculty colleagues at her affiliated schools with the aim of making music of earlier times more accessible. She will soon be performing on a concert of music by women composers through the ages on the Faculty Recital Series at the Manhattan School of Music.