About Austin

Austin Stewart, Ph.D., is an arts and culture executive with fifteen years of advancing philanthropy, operations, and institutional strategy at nationally recognized organizations, including the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS), the Curtis Institute of Music, Please Touch Museum, Opera Lafayette, and Detroit Opera. His portfolio of work with catalytic philanthropy is marked by many successes, among them directing AMFS’s three-year $90-million Aspen Promises campaign, leading planned and non-cash giving strategies during the final phase of Curtis’s $250 million centennial campaign, and the restoration and adaptive re-use through public-private partnerships of historically significant venues in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. An alumnus of Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of Texas at Austin with studies in voice and conducting, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy in historical musicology from the University of Michigan with certificates in American culture and early modern studies.