Stewart Robertson

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Stewart Robertson is a Scottish conductor, born in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Bristol University. He studied piano in London with Dennis Mathews and conducting with Otmar Suitner at the Mozarteum Academy and Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Academy.

He became the youngest conductor to lead a performance at the Cologne Opera since Herbert von Karajan. He has served as music director of the Zurich Ballet and Scottish Opera Touring Company. He has conducted New York City Opera productions broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center.

In addition to being an active pianist, Mr. Robertson is a broadcast writer and lecturer on music who has been seen and heard on National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting System, BBC, and Swiss-Italian radio and television.

Robertson currently serves as Music Director and Principal Conductor of both the Florida Grand Opera in Miami and the Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, New York. Until recently, he also conducted the Florida International University Symphony Orchestra, and was professor of orchestral studies at FIU. He is currently the conductor of the [Atlantic Classical Orchestra] in Florida.

Mr. Robertson was nominated for a Grammy in 2007 in the category of Best Opera Recording for Mines of Sulfur and recently recorded a new opera by Stephen Hartke entitled [The Greater Good] which was recorded by Naxos Records in 2007 with Glimmerglass Opera.