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Janet Stewart
(541) 346-5679
jjs@uoregon.edu

Janet J. Stewart is Assistant to the Dean and Director of the Chamber Music Series at the School of Music. She came to UO in 1991 from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she was the Administrator for the Department of Music. She has also held academic appointments at Sweet Briar College in Virginia and Emory University and Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Prior to rejoining the academic community, she was the Executive Director of the Plainfield Symphony, and the Artistic Director of the Opera Theater of New Jersey--where the company received statewide recognition for its arts-in-education component, Opera Works.

Stewart received her undergraduate music degree from Murray State University in Kentucky and her Master of Music Degree from the University of Colorado.

Before being invited to assume leadership roles in the field of arts administration, she performed leading roles with many outstanding American opera companies, including the Opera Society of Washington at the Kennedy Center and with the Philadelphia Lyric, the Connecticut, Denver, and Kentucky Opera Companies, and the Piedmont, Shreveport,and Atlanta Opera Theaters. Her oratorio performances included Britten's War Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony, Robert Shaw conducting, and other appearances with the Denver, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans Symphonies. In addition, Stewart was also a frequent finalist in national vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera auditions.

At the University of Oregon, she is the Manager of Beall Concert Hall and the School of Music building--one of the busiest buildings on campus. Her duties include scheduling all performances, overseeing the box office functions, and organizing all of the logistical concerns in presenting public performances, as well as conventions and conferences.