
Lucy Lewis is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance & Pedagogy at the University of Iowa as a student of Scott Conklin, and is also on the violin and chamber music faculty of the Preucil School of Music. Ms. Lewis holds degrees in Music Education and Violin Performance from Andrews University, where she studied with Carla Trynchuk. While at Andrews, she directed the string program at the Ruth Murdoch Elementary School and completed her student teaching under Roberta Guaspari (about whom the Grammy award winning movie Music of the Heart was made) at the Rivereast Elementary Public School, Central Park East I & II Public Schools, and the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music in East Harlem, New York City. She also holds a masters degree in Violin Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Piotr Milewski and taught in the Preparatory Department as a Suzuki violin/viola teacher and as a coach for the Accent Chamber Music Program. In addition to her private studio, she has previously been on the faculties of Southwestern and Lake Michigan Colleges, the Citadel Dance & Music Center, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Association’s Mentoring Program, and has been a guest clinician at several music festivals. Ms. Lewis has registered Suzuki teacher training with Moshe Neumann, Edmund Sprunger, Edward Kreitman, Ann Montzka-Smelser, Alice Joy Lewis, Carol Dallinger, and Nancy Lokken. Additional teacher training includes string pedagogy studies with Susan Keen, Carla Trynchuk and Kurt Sassmannshaus, training for the Mark O’Connor American String Method, and participation in the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin performance & Pedagogy at the Juilliard School. In addition to her teaching activities, Ms. Lewis is also an active solo performer and chamber musician. She has served as the concertmaster of the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra and performs as a member of theArdore String Quartet.