Darin John Lewis

Currently on the faculty at Lafayette College, Mr. Lewis has extensive experience conducting choral and instrumental ensembles. From founding the Manchester Chorale while studying a the Royal Northern College of Music on a Rotary Scholarship, to being a guest conductor wit the h Rush-Henrietta School in New York, to the Jenny Lin Foundation in California, he is developing a growing reputation as an experience, invigorating, and inspiring choral director. He has studies with noted choral pedagogues and conductors Dr. Charlene Archibeque, Dr. Robert Harris, and Rodney Eichenberger. He has been a read more...

Darin Lewis holds a Bachelor and master’s degree in piano performance. After graduating from Yale University, Mr. Lewis received a Teaching Fellowship at the City College of New York, where he began working on a Master’s degree in composition with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici. At City College, Mr. Lewis’ Revelation, (a setting of the Book of Revelations, for soprano soloist, choir and orchestra), was premiered. Upon his graduation in 1993, Mr. Lewis joined the music faculty of the Horace Mann School. During his tenure at Horace Mann he composed numerous works for the Orchestra, Concert Band, read more...

Darin Lewis began his musical studies at the age of seven. He attended Northwestern University, where he was a student of Russian-pianist Carmen Or. Upon her urging, he continued his studies with Daniel Pollack at the University of Southern California, where he graduated cum laude. Upon his graduation, he was awarded a Rotary Scholarship, allowing him to do post-graduate work at the Royal Northern College of Music in England with Sulamita Aronovsky. While in England, Mr. Lewis made his orchestral debut with the New-Castle-under-Lyme Orchestra playing Mozart. When he returned to the United States, Mr. Lewis began work read more...