ANNOUNCING Curtis Stewart 'of Love.' • Out Mar. 3, 2023 • Listen to "Embrace"

On June 2, 2023, GRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart releases of Love., an album dedicated to his mother, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, who died of brain cancer on Sept. 7, 2021, at age 66. “He is a giant … combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York Times), “a gem of a string player” (The Strad), “whose über passionate and virtuosic outpourings … grapple with reconciling the classical and jazz camps” (Downbeat Magazine). On of Love., a through-composed collection of 20 works, Curtis Stewart celebrates the perseverance of Kurtis-Stewart, a violinist and composer herself. Recorded in his late mother’s Upper West Side, Manhattan, apartment  — the apartment where Stewart was raised, the apartment where he cared for his mom during her dying days — of Love. is a requiem to cherish life, time, and lifetimes.

On April 5, 2023, Curtis Stewart released "Embrace," which you can listen to [HERE]." 

" Sampling music, words from communities where the work is performed, 'Embrace' spins the idea of 'outreach' on its head," says Curtis Stewart. "Using sounds and thoughts from outside the concert stage to elevate concert music, and commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra for violin and orchestra, this instance uses quotes from an interview with my mother, Elektra Kurtis Stewart."