Peak FreQuency Festival: George E. Lewis in Residence

George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. A 2002 MacArthur “genius” Fellow, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Lewis’s work in electronic and computer music and multimedia installations, chamber and orchestral music, opera, and improvisative forms is documented on more than 150 recordings, presented by the world’s finest ensembles.

Lewis has also published extensively on music, interactive technologies and media, experimental art, and improvisation, including his award-winning book, A Power Stronger Than Itself:  The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and his co-edited two-volume Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies (2016), which brought together scholars from the humanities, arts, and the social and natural sciences. Lewis holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, New College of Florida, and Harvard University.

This residency is a grand collaboration sponsored by the UCCS Music Program, the Colorado College Music Department, The Heller Center for the Arts and Humanities, CU President’s Fund for the Humanities, the UCCS Office of Research and the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs.

The festival will include:

• Heller Center for the Arts Fellowship: Collaboration as an Art Form with world renowned composer, George Lewis (Columbia University)
• UCCS Dean’s Distinguished Scholar Series: George E. Lewis: “Improvisation as a Way of Change”
• George Lewis with UCCS Music Faculty and Students
• Lonnie and Lonie (2019), a Double Concerto for Trumpet and Piano (World Premiere)

Lonnie and Lonie is a grand collaboration between UCCS, Colorado College and the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs for the “Bluegrass Beginnings” concert.

The concert will also feature the regional premiere of “Sky: Bluegrass Concerto” by Michael Torke, “Starburst” by Jessie Montgomery, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scherzo in G Minor” and Mozart’s grand “Symphony No. 34.”

For full list of events and times please visit our website.

For more information contact Colin McAllister at cmcallis@uccs.edu or 719-255-5134.