Michael J Lewis is an
award-winning composer and conductor.
Composer, pianist and producer, was born in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion,
Wales. He was a choirboy at six and church organist at ten. Later, he
studied harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Guildhall School of
Music in London. His numerous film score credits include Julius Caesar,
The Medusa Touch, The Naked Face, Theatre of Blood, Hound of the
Baskervilles and Sphinx. He won the Ivor Novello Award
(Britain’s premier music prize) for his first film score, The Madwoman
of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Danny Kaye and Yul Brynner,
directed by Bryan Forbes. His first Broadway show, Cyrano, earned
the actor Christopher Plummer a Tony Award and the writers a Grammy
nomination. The TV film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe won
Michael an Emmy Award and his first American score, Rose and the
Jackal, starring Christopher Reeve, won an American Cable Excellence
nomination. In 1994 he formed Pen Dinas Productions (Welsh for ‘chief
city’), named after the hill in Wales on which he was born. Current
releases include The Romantic Splendour of
Wales,
In the Language of Heaven, The Golden Harp, Celtic Moon, Incandescence,
Orchestral Romance, Orchestral Drama, Piano Moon, Christmas Around the
World, Beautiful Dreamer and Hearts Afire.
In 1997 Michael founded Côr Cymraeg De Califfornia (the Welsh Choir
of Southern California) a non-profit multi-ethnic choir
dedicated to the glories of Welsh music.
He has been the recipient of the ASCAP Special Award for the years
2000-2003.
"The Master of
the Epic and the Intimate. Uniquely skilled at blending divergent musical
styles, rhythms and instruments. Lewis and his work defy categorization -
extraordinary talent." Wade Major, Entertainment Today - Los
Angeles, CA
For more
information about Michael J Lewis,
visit http://www.bluediamondmusic.com
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