Multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and instrument designer Mark Stewart
has been heard around the world performing old and new music. Mark spent
much of 1999, 2000 and 2001 recording, touring & performing with Paul Simon
and the previous summer performing at Lincoln Center in Shakespeare's Twelfth
Night with Helen Hunt, Kira Sedgwick, and Paul Rudd.
A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Mark is also a member of Steve Reich and Musicians, David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness, the manic duo Polygraph Lounge with keyboard & theremin wizard Rob Schwimmer, The Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Arnold Dreyblatt's Orchestra of Excited Strings and Zeena Parkins' Gangster Band. He has also worked with Anthony Braxton, Bob Dylan, Cecil Taylor, Meredith Monk, Edie Brickell, Don Byron, Paul McCartney & Marc Ribot. He has worked with the choreographers Eliot Feld, Susan Marshall, & Yoshiko Chuma and has worked extensively with composer Elliot Goldenthal on music for the feature films Titus, The Butcher Boy, Bob the Gambler, In Dreams and Heat, often playing instruments of his own design and construction. His New York Lower East Side "lab" is home to an instrument workshop and sonic salon where traditional and new instruments cohabitate. He has played for the Broadway shows Showboat, The Who's Tommy, The Sound of Music, Carousel, and The Lion King.
Stewart can be heard on Warner Bros., Sony Classical, Point/Polygram, Nonesuch, Label Bleu, Resonance Magnetique, Cantaloupe and CRI recordings.