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Tony Lewis
Tony Lewis
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Tony Lewis [is] one of Sydney's most versatile and accomplished exponents of non-Western percussion
Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, April 23, 1999
Tony Lewis is a percussionist, composer, and music educator with over thirty years of professional experience. Based in Sydney, he specialises in contemporary cross-cultural music forms, and music for dance and theatre.
Tony currently performs in Sydney and internationally with the acclaimed "world jazz" group Waratah, and in duet with recorder player Racheal Cogan. He has performed with many of Australia's leading contemporary and cross-cultural music, dance and theatre groups, and with many visiting international artists - including Sangam, Tal Vad, B'tutta, Caroline Lynn's World Edge, The Renaissance Players, Southern Crossings, Ariel, Nardoo, Nakisa, REM Theatre, the One Extra Company, Alison's Wonderland, The Great Bowing Company, Sandy Evans, Matthew Doyle, Satsuki Odamura, Riley Lee, Mark Atkins, Michael Atherton and Margret RoadKnight, Jeannie Lewis and Cathie O'Sullivan. He has performed with many visiting international artists, including harmonic singer David Hykes, Spanish flamenco guitarist Miguel Rivera, North Indian sitar player Raj Kumar Sharma, and multi-racial South African dance troupe Moving Into Dance.
He has toured internationally to perform, study, teach, and/or conduct cultural exchange projects in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, many Pacific Islands, and indigenous communities around Australia. He appeared as a soloist at the Commonwealth Drum Festival in Auckland, 1990, and was Musical Director of the Asian segment of the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.
Tony has composed major works for the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (Munjong, Victorian Arts Centre 1990), the One Extra Company (Dancing Demons, Indonesian tour 1991), the Chrissie Parrott Dance Company (Satu Langit, Perth Festival 1994), Matthew Doyle and Dhamor Percussion (Wirid-jiribin, the Lyrebird, Festival of the Dreaming 1997), and Sadari Theatre Company (Ching-kom Dari, Seoul 2001). He has composed countless other works, full length or shorter, for small dance and theatre companies and independent artists.
Tony lectures, writes and convenes music units at Macquarie University, including units on African drumming and Australian Indigenous music and dance. He currently also tutors Sydney students for the University of New England.
Tony has given guest lectures and/or seminars at Sydney University, the University of Western Sydney, Australian National University (Canberra), Monash University (Melbourne), Edith Cowan University (Perth), James Cook University (Townsville), the University of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby), the Korean National University of the Arts (Seoul), and the University of Aarhus (Denmark). He has taught music at NAISDA (the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association), and is presently undertaking his PhD at the Sydney Conservatorium through research into the garamut (log drum) music of Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.
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