Dr. Eric R. Stewart serves as Music Director of the Island Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Long Island Festival Orchestra, and Director of Orchestral Studies at Long Island University- Post. He has appeared at such venues as Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), the Four Seasons Centre of the Canadian Opera Company (Bradshaw Amphitheatre) and has been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). Also a composer, Eric’s compositions are performed internationally. He was a finalist in the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition, as well as for the ASCAP Morton Gould Award. Born in 1985, Eric grew up in Buffalo, New York. His academic studies took place at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (B.M., M.M.) and the University of Toronto (D.M.A.).
Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition. Photos of the Island Symphony Orchestra and Rachell Ellen Wong, Violinist. Photography by id Unleashed.
Dr. Eric R. Stewart
Music Director and Conductor
Darlene Abbate-Struss
President
Susan Barbash
Vice-President, Promotional Materials
Lisa Brieff
Recording Secretary and Grantwriter
Lynne Bowden
Treasurer
Nancy Maia
Symphony Librarian and Archivist
Kevin DeLargy
Stage, Lobby, Instrument Inventory Management
Maricela McGrath
Corresponding Secretary
Mark Flanzraich
Technical Director & Stage Manager
Lora Kuykendall
Personnel Manager
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