Matthew Lewis maintains an active career as an organist, choral conductor, and educator. He came to St. John’s as director of music in January of 2024. As artistic director and conductor of St. George’s Choral Society in NYC since 2005, he directs the chorus in major works of the repertoire. With members of SGCS, he has appeared with the Paul Taylor American Modern Dance Company and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for five seasons at Lincoln Center, as organist and choir master, for performances of “Beloved Renegade,” featuring the Poulenc Gloria, and as solo harpsichordist for “Book of Beasts” with arrangements for pedal harpsichord by E. Power Biggs. From 2017 to 2023, he was organist and director of music at the Church of St. James the Less in Scarsdale. For 23 years he was organist and director of music at the Church of the Incarnation, where he directed a group of professional singers in a variety of liturgical choral music. Dr. Lewis has also served as organist and choir director at Temple Israel in Lawrence, NY, since 1993.
Dr. Lewis has been a member of the organ faculty of The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division since 1993 and served as adjunct assistant professor of organ at Westminster Choir College for 12 years. He has presented solo organ recitals in the United States, Canada, France and China, has been a featured artist on WNYC and Pipedreams (NPR), and has performed the complete organ works of César Franck several times, including at New York City’s Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.
Matthew Lewis completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Jon Gillock. Dr. Lewis is the former recipient of a Fulbright Grant and the Annette Kade Fellowship from the Council of International Education for study in Paris, where he was a student of the organ virtuoso Marie-Madeleine Duruflé. He studied choral conducting with Robert Page and harpsichord with Lionel Party. He lives in Mount Vernon, NY, with his husband, Pat Rasile.
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