Kevin Lewis
The Miracle of Unintelligibility: The Music and Invented Instruments of Lucia Dlugoszewski
  Oral Presentation
Thursday, 12:00 p.m.

Kevin Lewis holds degrees in percussion from Millikin University and the University of Akron and is nearing completion of a doctoral degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. As a section percussionist in the Akron Symphony Orchestra since 2004, a founding member of the progressive Akros Percussion Collective, and a participant in the prestigious TROMP International Percussion Competition in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 2010, Kevin has proven to be adept in multiple modes of percussive discourse. Additional performance credits include appearances with the Canton Symphony Orchestra, Ohio Light Opera, Ohio Ballet, the Groundworks Dance Theatre of Cleveland, and the world premieres of several works by the noted percussion composer, Stuart Saunders Smith. Kevin is equally engaged as a musicologist and has frequently been invited to present at international conferences. He is an active member of the PAS Scholarly Research Committee.