These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut of Geneva Lewis.
Lauded for “remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch” (Musical America), Geneva Lewis is the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and was Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition. She also won Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize and has been named a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and Musical America’s New Artist of the Month. Most recently, Lewis was named one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists.
Since her solo debut at age 11 with the Pasadena POPS, Lewis has gone on to perform with orchestras including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, and Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. The 2022/23 season includes performances with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Augusta Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Austin Symphony Orchestra, and Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
An advocate of community engagement and music education, Lewis was selected for the New England Conservatory’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program’s Ensemble Fellowship. Her quartet was also chosen for the Virginia Arts Festival Residency, during which they performed and presented master classes in elementary, middle, and high schools.
Lewis received her Artist’s Diploma and Bachelor’s degree in music as the recipient of the Charlotte F. Rabb Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music. Prior to that, she studied at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. She currently studies at Kronberg Academy. Past summers have taken her to the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, The Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Workshop, International Holland Music Sessions, Taos School of Music, and the Heifetz International Music Institute.
Lewis currently performs on a violin by Zosimo Bergonzi of Cremona, c. 1770, courtesy of Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago.
