Bang on a Can All-Stars
Mark Stewart (electric guitar)
Multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and instrument designer Mark Stewart has been heard around the world performing old and new music. Since 1998 he has recorded, toured and been Musical Director with Paul Simon. A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Mark is also a member of Steve Reich and Musicians, The Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Arnold Dreyblatt's Orchestra of Excited Strings, Zeena Parkins' Gangster Band and the manic duo Polygraph Lounge with keyboard & theremin wizard Rob Schwimmer. He has also worked with Anthony Braxton, Bob Dylan, Charles Wourinen, Cecil Taylor, Meredith Monk, Stevie Wonder, Phillip Glass, Hugh Masakela, Iva Bittova, Bruce Springsteen, Bobby McFerrin, Ornette Coleman, The New York Philharmonic, Edie Brickell, Don Byron, Paul McCartney, the Everly Brothers, Alison Krauss, David Byrne, James Taylor, The Roches, Marc Ribot & Simon & Garfunkel. He has worked with the choreographers Eliot Feld, Susan Marshall, and Yoshiko Chuma and has worked extensively with composer Elliot Goldenthal on music for the feature films The Tempest, Across the Universe, Titus, The Butcher Boy, The Good Thief, In Dreams, and Heat, often playing instruments of his own design and construction. His New York lower east side "Lab" is home to an instrument workshop and sonic salon where traditional, neglected and original instruments cohabitate. Stewart can be heard on Warner Bros., Sony, Sony Classical, Point/Polygram, Nonesuch, Label Bleu, Resonance Magnetique, Cantaloupe and CRI recordings.