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In addition
to being the
music director of the Elgin Choral Union, Andrew Lewis is the
artistic director of Bella Voce, Chicago’s premiere professional
chamber choir. He also holds the posts of cantor (music
director) at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Evanston, cover
conductor for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, and founder and
artistic director of The Janus Ensemble. Additionally, Lewis
serves on the conducting faculty at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. He formerly taught conducting at DePaul University,
has been a guest lecturer at Concordia University and Garrett
Theological Seminary, and was artistic director of the Lutheran
Choir of Chicago. Lewis attended Northwestern University,
studying 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 Franc isco,
having sung with baroque specialists Nicholas McGegan and
John Butt. He then attended the Eastman School of Music to study
choral and orchestral conducting with William Weinert and David
Effron. Lewis has also 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. He is married to singer and
conductor Kirsten Hedegaard. He and Kirsten have three young boys,
George, William and Henrik. |
