Geneva Lewis, violin

Geneva is a New Zealand-born American violinist lauded for “remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch” (Musical America). She has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. 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 August 2023, Geneva made her BBC Proms debut with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martin; the 2023-24 season includes further performances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and debuts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kremerata Baltica (alongside Gidon Kremer in Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No.1), as well as the San Diego Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco.