Lewis Lee

Lewis has just finished his third year studying Music at Merton College, Oxford, where he holds a Music Award. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras including Broadstone Sinfonia, Oxford Baroque Players, Nova Foresta Classical Players, the Wessex Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra SiO in Veneto, Italy. His solo performances have been recognised by numerous awards, including the 2019 ‘Rotary Wessex Young Musician of the Year’, reaching the National Final of their Young Musician Competition.

As an orchestral musician, Lewis has had professional experience with the Orchestra of St Johns and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, completing the latter’s Orchestral Apprenticeship in 2022, which included working with acclaimed artists such as Maxim Vengerov. At a university level, Lewis is Leader of Oxford University Sinfonietta, Oxford Baroque Players, and Co-Leader of Oxford University Orchestra. In April 2022, he was invited to lead an ensemble of players from Oxford University and the BBC Concert Orchestra in ‘Silk Road’, a concert in collaboration between Katie Melua and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).

Lewis is also an avid chamber musician; he has collaborated with the Castallian String Quartet and the Kaleidescope Chamber Collective through his scholarship with St Anne’s Camerata, and in 2019 his string quartet gave a recital in Conegliano, Italy, funded by the Belacqua Trust. He has studied violin with Jennifer Curiel and Simon Blendis, and next year will begin his MMus at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a Guildhall Scholar in the class of David Takeno, Eugène Ysaÿe International Chair of Violin, with whom he currently studies. Lewis performs on an 1820 Lorenzo Ventapane violin, kindly on loan through the Bate Collection.