Lament for a brilliant piccolo player

We reported in August the sad and sudden death in Egypt of Eva Stewart, principal piccolo of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

The Guardian has now published a friend’s tribute:

The piccolo-playing of my friend and colleague Eva Stewart, who has died aged 46 of a pulmonary embolism, reached a big new audience in the final weeks of her life when she gave a dazzling solo performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, dressed as a bee, at the first ever Relaxed Prom.

On that occasion she entranced live and radio audience members with visual and auditory impairments, but she was also widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading orchestral players, who epitomised today’s multifaceted orchestral musician….

Read on here.

We are sad to learn that @BBCNOW’s Eva Stewart has died. Here’s her beautiful performance on @BBCNewsnight just last month pic.twitter.com/bi7MoyBR3h

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 23, 2017