Biography
Leonard Mark Lewis, born in Great Yarmouth, England, in 1973 and raised in Houston, Texas, is a composer and pianist specializing in new music. His vocal works include a chamber opera, Wake Lucia, A Joycean Operatic Rite, and a catalog of celebrated art songs. He is an avid collaborator and has worked with choreographers and dance companies throughout the United States and abroad. He has received commissions and performances from the Charlotte Symphony, Rock Hill Symphony, North/South Consonance, AURA, Symposium for New Band Music, New Music Camerata, NACUSA, Concordia Trio, Hyperion Ensemble, Rhodora Trio, Duo Amizade, Trio Village, New Century Saxophone Quartet; soloists Kenneth Tse (saxophone), Alan Black (cello), James Dick (piano), Brian Utley (saxophone), and Benjamin Geller (viola), Leonardo Soto (percussion), Thomas Burge (trombone/euphonium), among many others. His concerti include works for percussion (Evolution, for Leonardo Soto), viola (Vast Skies, for Ben Geller), and saxophone (Concerto for Saxophone, for Kenneth Tse). Other major artists have performed his Concerto for Saxophone, including Steve Ticknor (President’s Own),Nate Nabb, and Tracy Patterson, who performed the work at Carnegie Hall. His viola concertino,Weeping, an Angel. Immense has recently received performances with the Charlotte Symphony,Rock
Hill, Symphony, and North/South Consonance, NYC. The Charlotte Symphony has also recently premiered his cello concerto, I Will Wade Out, Alan Black, soloist.Lewis, a Professor of Music at Winthrop University, is the recipient of awards including ASCAP, B.M.I., Columbia University (Bearns Prize), and Voices of Change. His music has been performed in many countries around the world.