Geneva Lewis
violin
New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. Named a BBC New Generation Artist (2022-24), Lewis is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was also Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the 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 Concordia Artist.
In 2023, Lewis made her BBC Proms debut in the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martin. Additional collaborations have included the BBC Symphony and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmonica de Minas Gerais, the Atlanta Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The 2025-26 season included performances with Kremerata Baltica, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Filharmonia Częstochowska, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Utah Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco.
Lewis has performed alongside musicians including Jonathan Biss, Glenn Dicterow, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Marcy Rosen, Sir András Schiff, and Mitsuko Uchida, among others. She has performed at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Marlboro Music Festival, Kronberg Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Ravinia, and Chamberfest Cleveland.
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, through which her string quartet created interactive educational programs for audiences throughout Boston. Lewis earned her Artist Diploma and Bachelor of Music at New England Conservatory.