Paul Lewis
Overview
Paul Lewis was born in Liverpool studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama in London before going on to study privately with Alfred
Brendel. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received
unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide, and consolidated his
reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European
classical repertoire. Lewis’s numerous awards have included the Royal
Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three
Gramophone awards, the Diapason D'or de l'Annee, the Preis Der Deutschen
Schallplattenkritik, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and
the South Bank Show Classical Music award. He is co-Artistic Director of
Midsummer Music and the Leeds International Piano Competition. Lewis holds
honorary degrees from Liverpool, Edge Hill, and Southampton Universities, and
was appointed a CBE in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours.