Earl Stewart - Amazing Grace Documentary

This clip is from the Amazing Grace Documentary about Grace Fisher. A remarkable young lady that works with Earl Stewart. Learn more about Grace Fisher at the Grace Fisher Foundation website.

Earl Stewart was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1950.  His musical studies began with the piano when he was six.  At twelve, he added trumpet and won numerous honors for his playing ability.  His skill with the trumpet and his ear for music allowed him, in his teens and early 20s, to play with and do musical arrangements for pick-up bands with visiting entertainers to the area - such as Percy Sledge, Syl Johnson, King Floyd and Garland Green.

He received his BS in Secondary Education from Southern University, Baton Rouge, studying under Walter Craig and the late jazz great Alvin Batiste in its Jazz Institute. He then received his MM and DMA in Composition from The University of Texas at Austin, studying with such luminaries as ethnomusicologist Gerard Behague, composers Karl Korte and Joseph Schwantner, and world-renowned orchestrator and author of Counterpoint (the late) Kent Kennan. Learn more at earllouisstewart.com.