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Leslie Stewart
Violin and Chamber Music, Coordinator of String Pedagogy Program
(970) 219-5985 | leslie2.stewart@colostate.edu
Director of the CSU String Pedagogy Program and Coordinator of CSU’s Summers-Only Master of Music Education degree with an Emphasis in Conducting. In addition, she teaches violin, coaches chamber music, and plays second violin in the CSU Faculty String Quartet. Ms. Stewart is a first violinist in the Lafayette Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, performs frequently with the Ft. Collins Symphony and Cheyenne Symphony, and has been a member of the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra since 1980.
Previous academic posts include Old Dominion University where she served as Assistant Professor of Violin and Director of Orchestral Activities beginning in 2000 and received the “Most Inspirational Faculty Member” awards from the College of Arts and Letters in 2006. She has also served on the faculties of Christopher Newport University and the Governor’s School for the Arts (both in Virginia), Chowan College in North Carolina and Dominican College of San Rafael in California.
PA graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Ms. Stewart holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in Music Performance from the University of Southern California. She was a member of the Puerto Rico Symphony and Alabama Symphony before moving to Northern California in 1989 to conduct the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra and direct the Marin Symphony’s Youth Programs. During her six-year tenure in Marin, she also played violin with numerous professional orchestras including the California Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, Women’s Philharmonic and Marin Symphony. For the next eight years, she served as Music Director and Conductor of the Bay Youth Orchestra of Virginia culminating in the Bay Youth Symphony’s performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2006.