George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Lewis’s other honours include a MacArthur Fellowship (2002) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015). He studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. Lewis’s work in electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installations, and notated and improvisative forms is documented on more than 150 recordings. His work has been presented by the London Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Mivos Quartet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Talea Ensemble, Wet Ink, and others, with commissions from many renowned orchestras and ensembles.