Macie Stewart

Macie Stewart is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Heralded for their versatility, Stewart works with piano, violin, guitar, voice, and synthesizers, effortlessly traversing styles and scenes. Stewart is a distinguished, go-to collaborator who Pitchfork credits with “making some of the best tracks of the past five years transcendent.”

As a composer, Stewart’s work continues to dissolve the boundaries between disciplines. Aside from her debut record, Mouth Full of Glass released in 2021 on Orindal Records and re-released in 2022 on Full Time Hobby Records—Macie also composed a piece for Hubbard Street Dance’s film, Half of Us, alongside Sima Cunningham in 2021. That same year, they worked with Cunningham and Alex Grelle to produce a performance piece paying homage to Kate Bush.

In 2022, Stewart/Cunningham composed the score for a 50-piece orchestra premiering the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Before I Was. And in 2023, choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams enlisted Stewart to create a sound installation for her dreamlike performance piece, Hisako House. Most recently, Stewart was invited to compose a site-specific piece for the ESS Florasonic Installation at Lincoln Park Conservatory. As part of the longest-running sound installation in North America, their twenty-minute composition titled The World Doubles in Size played in the conservatory’s fern room from September through November of 2024.

In March of 2025, Stewart released When the Distance is Blue via International Anthem, an album that “folds prepared piano, string quartet, and field recordings into elegant expressions of nameless longing” (Pitchfork), and is “at once lulling and eerie” (New York Times).