Stuart was a performer with the OWU Brass Quintet (1971-75), the Clarion Brass (1976-78), and manager and trombonist for The Well-Tempered Brass, comprised of graduate students of the  Eastman School of Music from 1980-1983. He has played as a substitute for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA), where he also served as  an assistant conductor in their performance of La Boehme, the Holyoke (MA) Community Symphony Orchestra and the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra (CT). Mr. Carter has also played in various chamber ensembles and in Jazz Bands in the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts and Rochester, New York.

From 1976-1979 he was Co-Chairman of the Performing Arts Department at The MacDuffie School for Girls. Later, he taught general, choral, and instrumental music at the Blue Mountain School in Vermont. He has served as Artist-in-Residence at many middle and high schools, teaching private brass instruction. From 1996-2001 he served as an Instructor for Community College of Vermont - in 1999, as a member of CCV Humanities Committee. He has served on the board of Summer Music from Greensboro (Vermont.) currently, he teaches brass students at Crossett Brook Middle School and Harwood Union High School in Waterbury, Vermont. Mr. Carter is Cooperating Artist of Trombone and Trumpet at St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont.

He has conducted The Wizard of Oz, Hello Dolly, South Pacific, Brigadoon, and the Faure Requiem. He was assistant conductor for the Lyric Theater production of Gypsy.

Among other works, he has composed the following works: Tell It Like It Is: a mass in the modern idiom (1970), Creation. Joys and Sorrows. On This Day Earth Shall Ring. Incidental music for Macbeth. I Thank You God. (performed by Social Band, Burlington, Vermont). Incidental music for The Madwoman of Chailliot. Incidental Music for Merchant of Venice. What a Brass Quintet Can Do - for children. The Road Not Taken (Frost), and Theme Music for the web site carolynBates.com He has composed music for weddings and upon the death of a friend.

Stuart Carter has worked as an actor in productions of: The Madwoman of Chailliot,(The Ragpicker) The Merchant of Venice (Antonio), (Champlain College players) News of the City - Talk of the Town Brecht on Brecht, Working, The Fantasticks (Henry-the old actor). The Cradle Will Rock, A Winter's Tale.(Lost Nation Theater) The Wizard of Oz,(Lyric Theatre. ) Hello Dolly (Horace) The MacDuffie School.

He has sung with church choirs and more recently in the Burlington, Vermont area, with Social Band.

His portrayal of Joe in Working with Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, Vermont was described as a "beautifully etched portrait in song and word," and "a second standout in a strong male cast is Stuart Carter, whose retired man and stone worker remind us again that this is a professional company." For his performance as Henry, the old actor, in The Fantasticks, he received the following accolade, "The pair that nearly brought the audience to tears was the acting duo of Henry and Mortimer. Stuart Carter's Henry enjoys overacting with gusto at every opportunity..."

Mr. Carter studied trombone with Stephen Podgorsky, Edward Kolyer, Emory Remington, Charles Thompson (1971-1975), George Osborn (1980-1982), John Marcellus, Ronald Barron (1973-1980, Principal Trombonist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, )and Jazz with Phil Wilson (summer of 1981), David Remington and others. He studied trumpet with Walter Chestnut and others, composition with Howard Hanson and Tilden Wells and others, piano with George Hart, Marion Jenson and Richard Strasburg and others, voice with Mary Ellen VanDeWater and Robert Nims and others. Mr. Carter was a student of conducting with Arthur Fielder, Wilfred Burkle, Robert Gutter (Springfield Symphony Orchestra - MA) Daniel Parker (Hartford Chamber Orchestra, Hartford, CT.) and David Effron.

His formative years included individual piano, trumpet, trombone, voice, cello and conducting study, wind ensemble, orchestral, opera, Broadway, jazz band, dance band and German band playing, choral, Broadway and Barbershop singing, festivals, and summer study opportunities. Swim team, tennis and golf lessons (He still has that slice he learned about.)

Mr. Carter is a member of the International Trombone Association, Music Educators National Association (MENC), Vermont Music Educators (VMEA), and Music Teachers National Association. (MTNA) He is a recipient of the John Philip Sousa Band Award and the Danforth, I Dare You Award

Stuart Carter has also worked as a Sales Representative for The Wendell Harrison Music Company, and an Assistant Development Director for GeVa Theater in Rochester, New York, as a Theater Management Assistant for Company One in Hartford Connecticut, and as a Pension Consultant for the Mass Mutual Insurance Company. In 1981 he was a finalist for the American Symphony Orchestra League Management Fellowship Program. He worked as a Lifeguard and Swimming Instructor for over 15 years.

Mr. Carter's first music was written at the age of 5. Unfortunately, time has obscured this burst of creativity. He continued to compose and in middle school he wrote music, among other things, for his dog to perform. His dog's paws scratched the piano bench newly refinished by his father during a rehearsal, so Stuart abandoned quickly this line of creativity. But, he continues to compose.

He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his two Golden Retrievers, Tristan and Lad. They love to swim, hike, bike and camp.