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Andrew LewisQuick Contacts email the dept. of performing arts email the music dept. email the theater dept.
UIC Department of Performing Arts |
Conductor  In addition to being the Artistic Director of Bella Voce (www.bellavoce.org) Andrew Lewis holds the posts of Music Director of the Elgin Choral Union (www.elginchoralunion.org), Artistic Director Emeritus of the Lutheran Choir of Chicago, Cantor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Evanston, cover conductor for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the Women’s Choral Ensemble at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Founder and Artistic Director of The Janus Ensemble, a professional orchestra and chamber choir specializing in Baroque and new music. Mr. Lewis taught the conducting course at DePaul University for two years, has been a guest lecturer at Concordia University, Garrett Theological Seminary, and a guest conductor for the Chamber Choir of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also an active clinician and a former ensemble member of Bella Voce. Mr. Lewis attended Northwestern University, having studied Music Theory and Voice. While a student at Northwestern he was provided with a scholarship to observe the rehearsals of Daniel Barenboim and Asher Fisch at the Staatsoper-Unter-den-Linden, Berlin. After college he worked as a church musician and was an original member of the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale of San Francisco, having sung with Baroque specialists Nicholas McGegan and John Butt. He then attended the Eastman School of Music to study choral and orchestral conducting. Mr. Lewis has studied with conductors Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, Robert Spano, James Paul, Gustav Meier, Stephen Cleobury, Duain Wolfe, and Dale Warland in the United States and Michel Tapachnik in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Lewis is married to singer and conductor Kirsten Hedegaard. They have three young boys: George, William, and Henrik. |
