Geneva Lewis

New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. Named a BBC New Generation Artist, Geneva is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, winner of the 2021 Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize, Musical America’s New Artist of the Month in June 2021, a Performance Today Young Artist-in-Residence, and a YCAT Concordia Artist.

Geneva has been featured with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kremerata Baltica, Knoxville Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, as well as at the BBC Proms. She has performed in venues and festivals such as London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Marlboro Music Festival, and Chamberfest Cleveland.

An advocate of community engagement and music education, Geneva was selected for New England Conservatory’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program’s Ensemble Fellowship, through which her string quartet created interactive programs for audiences throughout Boston. Geneva received her Artist Diploma from New England Conservatory as the recipient of the Charlotte F. Rabb Presidential Scholarship, studying with Miriam Fried. Prior to that, she studied with Aimée Kreston at Colburn School of Performing Arts. She currently studies at the Kronberg Academy with Professor Mihaela Martin.

Geneva performs on a composite violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, c. 1776 generously on loan from a Charitable Trust.