Prof. George E. Lewis
Columbia University
George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor
of American Music at Columbia University. A 2015 Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lewis has received a MacArthur Fellowship
(2002), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), a United States Artists Walker
Fellowship (2011), an Alpert Award in the Arts (1999), and fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, Lewis received the
degree of Doctor of Music (DMus, honoris causa) from the University of Edinburgh.
A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative
Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis's work in electronic and computer
music, computer-based multimedia installations, and notated and
improvisative forms is documented on more than 140 recordings. His work
has been presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London
Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, Talea Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, Ensemble
Pamplemousse, Wet Ink, Ensemble Erik Satie, Eco Ensemble, and others,
with commissions from American Composers Orchestra, International
Contemporary Ensemble, Harvestworks, Ensemble Either/Or, Orkestra
Futura, Turning Point Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music
Players, 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, IRCAM, Glasgow Improvisers
Orchestra, and others. Lewis has served as Ernest Bloch Visiting
Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley; Paul Fromm
Composer in Residence, American Academy in Rome; Resident Scholar,
Center for Disciplinary Innovation, University of Chicago; and CAC Fitt
Artist In Residence, Brown University.
Lewis received the 2012 SEAMUS Award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and his book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
(University of Chicago Press, 2008) received the American Book Award
and the American Musicological Society’s Music in American Culture
Award. Lewis is the co-editor of the forthcoming two-volume Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, and his opera Afterword,
commissioned by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University
of Chicago, premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in
October 2015.
Sergio A. Mims writes:
Civic Orchestra of Chicago: Beethoven + Lewis
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Experience music that spans centuries as the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago pairs performances of Beethoven with Chicago-born
jazz musician and contemporary composer, George Lewis.
George E. Lewis is a Professor of American Music at Columbia
University, a 2015 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and a 2002 MacArthur “Genius” awardee. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of
the most famous and influential German composers in history. He was as a
crucial figure in Western music during the 19th Century.
The Civic Orchestra of Chicago is one of the nation’s premier
training programs for emerging professional musicians with a focus on
teaching, mentoring, and performing at community venues throughout
Chicago. This performance series will mark the second collaboration
between Rebuild and COC.
Comments by email:
1) Dear Bill and Sergio (if I may)—
Comments by email:
1) Dear Bill and Sergio (if I may)—
Thanks
for sending this along. As you can imagine, I am a reader of
Africlassical, and I’m happy to be included in this recent post.
I
hope you have a chance to hear the piece live. I’m sorry I can’t be
there. Michael Lewanski, who is conducting the Civic musicians, is
simply great. I’m recording a portrait CD with him and Ensemble Dal
Niente in August.
2) Sorry to say I can't be there either because of a previous engagement, What a bummer. Sergio [Sergio A. Mims]
About the piece’s history:
* Link to the review of the premiere (2013):
* The piece was performed in Chicago in 2013:
* Attached: Program notes from Lincoln Center, with my commentary.
* Other recent music of mine:
Someone else who Africlassical might want to write about:
With Seth Parker Woods, cello (another upcoming performance in Chicago this week:
International
cello soloist and chamber musician Seth Parker Woods proudly makes his
Chicago solo debut with his latest solo project Asinglewordisnotenough,
which is inspired by the oeuvre of musique concrète founder, Pierre
Schaeffer. The evening’s performance will feature the Chicago premiere
of new works commissioned by Woods for solo cello and interactive
electronics by composers George E. Lewis, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and
Chicago native Edward Hamel.
Very best—
George [George E. Lewis]
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George E. Lewis
Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music
Columbia University
Department of Music
621 Dodge Hall, MC1813
2960 Broadway
New York NY 10027 USA
Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music
Columbia University
Department of Music
621 Dodge Hall, MC1813
2960 Broadway
New York NY 10027 USA
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