In recent appearances, American tenor Joshua Stewart joined celebrated conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on tour in the UK, to Paris and to Germany as tenor soloist in Tippett’s A Child of our Time. He traveled to the US to appear with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Das Paradies und die Peri under the baton of Paolo Bortolameolli and remained to revive the title role Charlie Parker’s Yardbird at Seattle Opera.

Previous season’s highlights include the roles of Zinovy Lady Macbeth of Mstensk and Lazarus in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Wake, both at Birmingham Opera Company directed by Graham Vick; Antenore Zelmira and Giove Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo at Rossini in Wildbad. Concert appearances include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with CBSO under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. He sang Trin La Fanciulla del West at Hamburg State Opera; Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opera de Lausanne and Opera de Fribourg; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at Toledo Opera; Arturo Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Carolina and at Toledo Opera; Abdallo Nabucco at Oberammergau Passionstheater. Concert appearances include Carmina Burana with Toledo Symphony, and Erzengel Das Spiel von der Auferstehung des Herrn by Walter Braunfels with the Muenchner Rundfunkorchester.

Enjoying a long collaboration with Peter Sellars, the artist sang the role of The Shepherd Oedipus Rex in performances staged by the director under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, at Festival Aix en Provence, and in London at the Royal Festival Hall. He made his debut with Los Angeles Philharmonic as Narrator in Sellars’s Das Paradies und die Peri with Gustavo Dudamel on the podium.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Joshua attended the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) joining their list of distinguished alumni: Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., Terence Blanchard, Christian Scott, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, and Jonathan Batiste. His first recording came at the age of 12 when he released a solo album entitled ‘New Orleans Jazz Prodigy’ which was produced by legendary trumpeter Milton Batiste. His many appearances in the title role Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, an American opera based on the life of the legendary jazz saxophonist, were undoubtedly informed by his jazz background, and he sang the role at Madison Opera, Atlanta Opera, Arizona Opera and at Seattle Opera.

Joshua Stewart is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and a former member of Munich’s Bavarian State Opera Studio, where he appeared in the productions of Christoph Loy, Richard Jones, Constantine Trinks, Kent Nagano, Dan Ettinger and Maurizio Benini. He has performed for several world leaders, including King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden, and Presidents George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and Barack Obama.