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Duvone Stewart
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Stewart is a pannist, composer and steel pan arranger.

Early Life

Duvonne Dwayne Stewart came into this world on September 17th 1976. His parents are Curtis and Virginia Percival, two musicians. He came from a middle class background. He attended school at the Signal Hill Senior Comprehensive School in Tobago, the island where he was born and grew up. .

=Musical Development=

At age six (6),Duvone was under the musical tutelage of Mrs. Gwyneth Armstrong, when he was exposed to the steelpan. After his first two hours with the instrument, he was able to play a rendition of Mary Had a Little Lamb, with his eyes closed. At eight years, he was a member of the Trinto Tobago All Stars Steel Orchestra. When Duvone was ten years old, he entered and won the talent competition 'Twelve and Under'. Stewart entered many other competitions playing the steel pan and has under his belt victories in the Trinidad and Tobago Teen Talent Competition and in the Tobago Music Festival. At 13 years of age, Duvone won the San Fernando Music Festival competition on the steelpan, and he won this competition at age 14 and 15 as well. Another competition Duvone entered was the World Steel Pan Festival in 1993. He placed fifth in this competition. At age 18, Duvone made a sacrifice and left his home in Tobago to live in Trinidad, all for the sake of his love for the pan. In Trinidad he became a member of the Amoco Renegades Steel Orchestra. He began to study the different styles of other arrangers like Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe, Dr, Jit Samaroo, Clive Bradley, Robert Greenidge, Earl Brooks, Leon .Smooth. Edwards, Professor Ken Philmore and many others. Duvone Stewart did an international tour with Lincoln Enterprise Ensemble in 1997. This steelpan side toured Columbia. From 1998 to 2002, Duvonee re-entered the World Steel Pan Festival where he established his dominance. He also entered the Pan Ramajay Soloist Competition where he was also victorious. He has been influenced by arrangers like Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe, Leah Scoon Edwards and Clive Brathwaite.

=Achievements as an Arranger=

At the age of twenty four, Duvone Stewart was the primary arranger for his six piece steel ensemble, the NFM Pantasy, which toured Asia, Europe and North America. In 2001, he arranged for La Horquetta Pan Groove.

Duvone Stewart has achieved at least two feats in the musical world of pan arranging which no one else has achieved to the year 2019. The first is that he is the only arranger to have won back to back Panorama titles for four successive years.

Secondly,this Tobago born, "ace pan arranger", is the first arranger for steel pan to have his musical arrangements adjudged best musical compositions in three categories;the small, medium and large band categories in the same year, that is 2019. The situation in 2019 is as follows:The Defence Force Steel Orchestra, playing Mr. Stewart's arrangement of the calypso named 'Maxi Dub', a Leston Paul composition, sung by calypsonian,Bally, won in the small steelband Panorama competition which was held at Skinner's Park, San Fernando, Trinidad. They won with 286 points. The Pan Elders Steelband won with 282 points. This was in the medium steelband competition. Mr. Duvonne Stewart's winning arrangement was the calypso called 'The Will' sung by calypsonian, Scrunter. In the large band category, Bp Renegades amassed a total of 288 points. They played Duvonne Stewart's arrangement of the popular soca song, 'Hookin Meh'. Hookin Meh was sung by soca singer Darryl Henry,stage name Farmer Nappy. This was in the Panorama Steelband Competition held at the Queen's Park Savannah in March 2019.

To hear the live performances of each of these arrangements, you can go to you tube. They are available at Bp Renegades Win Panorama 2019 published by Living Big on a Tiny Island.The url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixqRLVuhcA&t=3s Pan elders/The Will/Panorama 2019 Finals published by Trinibago Culture. The url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiFAj2QLKnA&t=4s 2019 Panorama, Small Band Finals(Defence Force) published by Anthony Jack. The url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5oEGSZXkk&t=208s

Duvone Stewart has arranged for other steel band orchestras both in Trinidad and Tobago and in different parts of the world. Some of the steel band orchestras in Trinidad and Tobago for which he has arranged are Merrytones, Solo Pan Knights, and Our Boys Steel Orchestra.

Internationally Stewart has arranged for Harmony Steel Orchestra in New York ;Calypso Atlantic in France; Steel Pan de Montagnac in France; ‘Big Pan’ Pan Groove in Germany; and Piton Diamond Steel Orchestra in St. Lucia.