Stewart Robertson (22 May 1948 – 12 February 2024[1]) was a Scottish conductor who worked internationally, especially in the United States from the 1980s, also as a radio journalist and academic teacher.

He studied piano in London with Denis Matthews,[2] and conducting with Otmar Suitner at the Mozarteum in Salzburg[2] and Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Academy.

[4] Robertson became the youngest conductor to lead a performance at the Cologne Opera since Herbert von Karajan.

He served as music director of the Zurich Ballet and Scottish Opera's touring company.

Robertson was music director of Glimmerglass Opera from 1988 to 2006, where he staged works by Benjamin Britten such as Death in Venice, and promoted American works including William Schumann's A Question of Taste and David Carlson's The Midnight Angel.