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Stewart Webster grew up in Lundin Links, Fife and studied at the Junior department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow with Jerre Gibson and Rebecca Rathbone before going on to study there full time with Tamas Fejes and graduate with a first class Bmus (hons) degree in 2007.

At the RSAMD Stewart has won all of the prizes for solo violin, the Ramsay A. Calder and Dunbar-Gerber prize competitions for chamber music with Romanian pianist Ancuta Daniella-Nite, as well as the Iain D Watt chamber music competition, playing piano with violinist Liam Lynch.

An experienced orchestral musician, Stewart has played with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Ensemble and has led the Academy Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.

As a soloist he has recently appeared with the Scottish Borders Symphony Orchestra playing Mendelssohn's violin concerto and with the Crail Festival Orchestra playing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with violist and fellow quartet member Hannah Craib. Currently Stewart is living in Glasgow and freelances with all of the Scottish orchestras.