Photo by Motti Fang-Bentov
Geneva Lewis, violin
New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry. Named a BBC New Generation Artist (2022–24), Ms. Lewis is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, winner of the Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize (2021), Musical America’s New Artist of the Month (June 2021), a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and a YCAT Concordia Artist.
The 2023–24 season saw her solo premiere at the BBC Proms and performances with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kremerata Baltica, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco.
Deeply passionate about chamber music, Ms. Lewis has collaborated with prominent musicians such as Jonathan Biss, Glenn Dicterow, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Marcy Rosen, Sir András Schiff, and Mitsuko Uchida. She has performed in venues and festivals such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Marlboro Music Festival, Kronberg Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Ravinia, and Chamberfest Cleveland.
Geneva Lewis studied at the New England Conservatory with Miriam Fried and at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Aimée Kreston. She is currently studying at Kronberg Academy with Professor Mihaela Martin. Ms. Lewis currently performs on a composite violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, c. 1776 generously on loan from a charitable trust.