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Darin Lewis began his musical studies at the age of seven. After attending Northwestern University, he graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California, where he studied piano with Daniel Pollack. Upon his graduation, he was awarded a Rotary Scholarship, allowing him to pursue post-graduate work at the Royal Northern College of Music in England. While in England he made his orchestral debut playing Mozart, gave numerous mini-concerts and speeches, composed his Requiem and conducted its first performance. The response to the Requiem was so overwhelming that a local business man financed its performance at the Cathedral in Walsall, which Mr. Lewis conducted. After returning to the United States, Mr. Lewis began work on his Master's degree in Piano Performance at Yale University, where he was the recipient of the Catherine Winchell Scholarship. At Yale, with the advice of Ezra Laderman and Joan Panetti, Mr. Lewis began to explore his abilities as a composer. During 1990, Mr. Lewis conducted performances of his Requiem in Connecticut and California. In 1991, after graduating from Yale, Mr. Lewis received a Teaching Fellowship at the City College of New York, where he worked on a Master's degree in composition witht the Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Del Tredici; he graduated in 1993. Currently, Mr. Lewis is Chair of the Performing Arts at the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, NY.

Mr. Lewis is an active recitalist having performed in California, New York, Oregon, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Florida, Connecticut and most recently in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. Conducting engagements have taken him to New York, France, and California.

The music on this website is Cinema Symphony No. 2.