San Francisco Classical Voice: "Conductor on the Rise Makes an Occasion Out of His SF Symphony Debut"

The San Francisco Symphony concerts at the end of November revealed an exceptional young conductor taking his next step. Daniel Stewart offered a probing interpretation of the summit of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonic career, as well as the West Coast premiere of Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury. You couldn’t help but marvel at Stewart’s mastery, conducting from memory, as he did the Beethoven five years ago, with the Santa Cruz Symphony, where he is music director.

Stewart emphasized first the joyous and galloping abandon of the music and then its triumphant conclusion…..

…the audience’s outpouring of emotion expressed after these performances was a cri de coeur…..

The extended standing ovations each night gave testimony to that.