After working with Les McCann for three years, Steuart went back to school to study Double Bass, Music Theory and Composition at California University at Northridge. After graduation, he played in various rock bands finally forming BLOC-which went on to a critically acclaimed existence in the L.A. club scene-recording one album on A&M Records. Concurrent with this he played with Julius Hemphill in both Europe and the United States, appearing on one album.
An interest in composition has led to much self-study and approximately twenty pieces ranging from small chamber pieces to full-scale orchestra works.
A parallel interest in free improvisation has led to an involvement with members of L.A.'s "Avant Garde Jazz/Improvised Music" community in both live and recorded situations. Among these are Wayne Peet's Doppler Funk, Rhythm Plague (with Peet and Nels Cline), The G.E Stinson Group, Unique Cheerful Events (with Stinson, Kaoru and Joseph Berardi), The G.E. Stinson Quartet (with Stinson, Jeff Gauthier and Gregg Bendian) in addition to many other ad hoc groupings of the moment.
His own unique band, Quartetto Stig, is the marriage of these two impulses. Quartetto Stig has three CDs on Nine Winds Records: Hommages Obliques (1993), Lingua Oscura (1995) and Pienso Oculto (1997). He has a trio recording, No Train (Cadence Jazz Records), with multi-reed virtuoso Vinny Golia and drummer Billy Mintz due to be released in 1998. Another trio with John Fumo and Alex Cline is also starting to work. Further developments include the founding of two bands in 1998: Stigtette (trombone, clarinets, flutes and electric bass) and Idiot Sauvage (alto saxophone, chromatic harmonica, drums and electric bass).