New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of
consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. Lauded for
“remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch”
(Musical America), Geneva is the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, 2021
Avery Fisher Career Grant and Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild
Competition. Additional accolades include Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize,
being named a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and Musical America’s
New Artist of the Month. Most recently, Geneva was named one of BBC Radio 3’s New
Generation Artists.

Since her solo debut at age 11 with the Pasadena POPS, Geneva has gone on to perform
with orchestras including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony, Sarasota
Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony and Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and with
conductors including Nicholas McGegan, Edwin Outwater, Michael Feinstein, Sameer
Patel, Peter Rubardt, and Dirk Meyer. The 2022-23 season includes performances with
the Auckland Philharmonia, North Carolina Symphony, Augusta Symphony, Kansas City
Symphony, Austin Symphony and Arkansas Symphony. In recital, recent and upcoming
highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall, Tippet Rise, Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society, Washington Performing Arts, Merkin Hall, and the Dame Myra Hess
Memorial Concerts.

Deeply passionate about collaboration, Geneva has had the pleasure of performing with
such prominent musicians as Jonathan Biss, Glenn Dicterow, Miriam Fried, Kim
Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Marcy Rosen, Sir András Schiff, and Mitsuko Uchida,
among others. She is also a founding member of the Callisto Trio, Artist-in-Residence at
the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles. Callisto received the Bronze Medal at the
Fischoff Competition as the youngest group to ever compete in the senior division finals.
They were recently invited on the Masters on Tour series of the International Holland
Music Sessions and performed at the celebrated Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
An advocate of community engagement and music education, Geneva was selected for
the New England Conservatory’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program’s
Ensemble Fellowship, through which her string quartet created interactive educational
programs for audiences throughout Boston. Her quartet was also chosen for the Virginia
Arts Festival Residency, during which they performed and presented masterclasses in
elementary, middle, and high schools.

Geneva received her Artist Diploma and Bachelor of Music as the recipient of the
Charlotte F. Rabb Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory, studying
with Miriam Fried. Prior to that, she studied with Aimée Kreston at the Colburn School
of Performing Arts. Past summers have taken her to the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia
Steans Institute, Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Workshop, International Holland
Music Sessions, Taos School of Music and the Heifetz International Music Institute.
Geneva is currently performing on a violin by Zosimo Bergonzi of Cremona, c. 1770
courtesy of Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago.