New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart and who has been lauded for the “remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch” (Musical America).
Named a BBC New Generation Artist (2022-24), Geneva is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was also Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, winner of the Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize (2021), Musical America’s New Artist of the Month (June 2021), a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence and a YCAT Concordia Artist.
In the 2023-24, Geneva made her BBC Proms debut with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martin, as well as the BBC Symphony and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kremerata Baltica, as well as the San Diego Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco. The 2024-25 season sees performances with orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Des Moines Symphony and Orquestra Filarmonica de Minas Gerais.
