*Contemporary Music Research Unit (CMRU) Lecture Series 2015*
Goldsmiths, University of London

In association with the Institute for Musical Research 
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the CMRU <http://www.gold.ac.uk/cmru/> presents this evening lecture in 
Senate House.

*George E. Lewis*

When: 24 November 2015, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Where: Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU (map 
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Cost: free / all welcome

http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9179

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*George E. Lewis is a composer, electronic performer, installation 
artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and 
experimental music. *

George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at 
Columbia University and the director of the Center for Jazz Studies. The 
recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an Alpert Award in the Arts 
in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lewis 
studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM School of 
Music and studied trombone with Dean Hey. A member of the Association 
for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis’s 
oral history is archived in Yale University’s collection of “Major 
Figures in American Music.”

Lewis’s published articles on music, experimental video, visual art, and 
cultural studies have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited 
volumes. His 2008 book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and 
American Experimental Music, received the American Book Award (2009), 
the American Musicological Society’s Music in American Culture Award 
(2009), an Award for Excellence in Recorded Sound Research from the 
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (2009), and an award from the 
Jazz Journalists Association for the Best Book on Jazz (2009).

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CMRU talks are free and open to all.
For further information please contact:
Prof Roger Redgate: [log in to unmask]
Dr Dimitris Exarchos: [log in to unmask]

*Contemporary Music Research Unit ***

*Lecture Series 2015 *


http://www.gold.ac.uk/cmru/events/

Monday 30 November, 5pm,  Senate House

*BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH*(in association with the IMR)

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU ( 
http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9180 
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9180>)

Monday 7 December, 6pm,  Deptford Town Hall

*JONATHAN OWEN CLARK  (*http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9181 
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9181>)

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Associate Lecturer, Department of Music
Advisor, Contemporary Music Research Unit
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.gold.ac.uk/music/staff/exarchos