Brian Lewis - violin - "72 Hours of August

Brian Lewis, violin

Brian Lewis has been a mainstay of the 72 Heures d'Août festival for over 20 years. He is director of the Starling Delay Symposium for violin education in Julliard. Proclaimed Artist of the Year in 1998 by the Young Audiences, he made his debut at New York's Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls. He has appeared as soloist with the Berlin, Syracuse and New York symphony orchestras, and in 2006 gave his first recital at Lincoln Center.

Winner of the Mid-America Violin Competition and Sony ES Award. He is associate professor of violin at the Austin School of Music in Texas.

Classical concert and candlelight dinner, August 19 at 8:30 p.m.