Aaron Casserly Stewart
Programmer & Events Director, The Piece Hall
Aaron Casserly Stewart is a senior executive with 30 years’ experience in the music industry. He is a jazz vocalist & former singer with the three-time Grammy Award winning group The Sounds of Blackness. He is the former personal assistant to Morris Hayes (Prince’s music director/keyboardist & band leader of The New Power Generation).
Winner of a 2012 NAACP Image Award, Aaron is the Chairman of Jazz North; Member of the West Yorkshire Music Network; former Vice-Chairman of Leeds Conservatoire & former Trustee of the Manchester Jazz Festival.
He is also a PRS Foundation Advisor; Music: Leeds Advisor; Launchpad Advisor & former City Commissioner/Mayor of Parsons, Kansas.
Currently he works as the Programme & Event Director for The Piece Hall in Halifax, England & has been the business manager the past twelve years for Erik “Blu2th” Griggs; producer at Dr Dre’s Aftermath record label based in Los Angeles.