Biography
George E. Lewis is an American composer, musicologist, and trombonist. He is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, and Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Lewis is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the British Academy, as well as a member of the Akademie der Künste and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Other honors include the Doris Duke Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of ›A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music‹ (University of Chicago Press) and, together with Harald Kisiedu, co-editor of ›Composing While Black: Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute/Afrodiasporic New Music Today‹ (Wolke Verlag).