Joanna Lewis

Joanna Lewis (born April 21, 1963 in Adelaide ) is an Australian violinist and composer who has emerged in both classical and improvisational music.

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Lewis studied violin, cello and composition with Don Oates and Beryl Kimber in Adelaide, then violin with Spiros Rantos in Queensland. She is a five-time winner of the Young Composers Award Adelaide. During my studies in Australia there were numerous concerts, tours and recordings etc. a. with the Queensland Youth Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra (for which she was concertmaster), the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra .

In 1985 she came to Austria as the winner of the Carl Ludwig Pinschof Scholarship, where she studied with Wolfgang Schneiderhan , Gerhard Hetzel and Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . The degree was awarded with distinction.

Lewis founded the Koehne Quartet in 1987 , which she still leads today. In 1999 she founded the trio Alone Again with Herbert and Wolfgang Reisinger (album of the same name on Extraplatte ). She also appeared as a soloist; a collaboration with Burkhard Stangl , the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna , the Ensemble des XX. Century , Music On Line, Vienna Art Orchestra , Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic, Wiener Concert-Verein , Wiener Symphoniker , Otto Lechner Quartet, Max Nagl Quintett, Velvet Lounge , World Orchestra , Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Klangforum Wien and Camerata Schulz. The album Songs for the Boys was created in a duo with Herbert Reisinger in 2002 . She can also be heard as a soloist on albums by Nagl, the Vienna Art Orchestra , João de Bruçó , Karl Ritter , Hannes Löschel , Georgio Occhipinti, Radu Malfatti , Peter Rosmanith , Michael Mantler , Elfi Aichinger and Wolfgang Puschnig .

Lewis also composed; In 2000 she was commissioned to compose a string quartet and two female voices for the Graben Festival Vienna; she also wrote music for the album Alone Again and for Löschel's album Edi Flaneur .

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SURNAME	Lewis, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Adelaide