George Lewis

[US]

George Lewis is Professor of American Music at Columbia University, and Area Chair in Composition. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Lewis’s other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship (2002) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).

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 150 recordings. His work has been presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Musikfabrik, Mivos Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Spektral Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Pamplemousse, Wet Ink, and others. His opera Afterword (2015) has been performed in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic.

Mind Reader / Voyager

HAU1, Fri 02.02.2018, 19:00

Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber, George Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell

Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise?

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sat 03.02.2018, 16:00

George E. Lewis

Artist Talk: Roscoe Mitchell & George E. Lewis

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sat 03.02.2018, 17:00

Roscoe Mitchell & George E. Lewis