Eric Lewis

Eric Lewis
 
Entangled Beings
 

 
Composer: Eric Lewis
Violinists: Eric Lewis, Katherine Dorn Lewis
Cellist: Adam Cathcart
Performed by the Elysium Ensemble
Live in London at the Cello Factory Gallery
 
 
 
Eric Lewis, violinist, composer, essayist, conductor, recording artist, launched his own concert career in 1968 with the formation of the new Manhattan String Quartet. Their residency at Music Mountain chamber music center brought his activities recognition as music director, teacher and first violinist of the international radio concert series from 1981 to ’89. Lewis served as U.S cultural ambassador to the former Soviet Union during the Glasnost era of the 1980’s. The Manhattan String Quartet’s recording of the Shostakovich Quartet Cycle was named by Time magazine in its best of 1991 classical list. He retired from the Manhattan Quartet in 2013 after 45 years as founder and first violinist.
 
Lewis, is professor emeritus of Western Connecticut State University after 35 years as teacher of strings, chamber music and conductor. Prof. Lewis continues his association with the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. In recent years, he has broadened his concert and recording, performing with several innovative ensembles (Elysium, Delphi, Prometheus), composing and writing essays about music. His compositions range from solo and chamber works to a Lullaby Requiem for the children victims of violence.
 

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