JazzMarathon '95
Groningen
George E. Lewis and voyager III
George E. Lewis
George E. Lewis (born Chicago, 1952) is active in 21st Century art
and music as a composer, performer and computer/installation
artist. A 20 year member of the Association for the Advancement of
Creative Musicians, Lewis studied composition with Muhal Richard
Abrams at the AACM School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey.
He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Yale College.
A recipient of several awards from the National Endowment for the
Arts in both music and inter-arts categories, Lewis has presented
his interdisciplinary compositions across Eastern and Western
Europe, North America and Japan. His computer compositions have
been premiered at the Banff Centre (Canada),
IRCAM (Paris) and the
Studio voor
Elektro-Instrumentale Muziek (Amsterdam). Lewis's
intermedia installations have been shown at the Randolph Street
Gallery in Chicago and the Musee de la Vilette in Paris and his
"interactive music videos", combining the mediums of theater, video
and computer music, have been presented at the Arte Elettronica
Festival in Camerino (Italy) and the Kitchen (New York).
Lewis's work as a trombonist is documented on over eighty record
albums on which he is featured as composer, improvisor or
interpreter. He has taught at Simon Fraser University and the Art
Institute of Chicago and was for two years curator of the Music
program at the Kitchen Centre in New York City. Currently, Lewis is
Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, San
Diego.
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