Singer/Pianist/Composer

Biography

Lilli Lewis has been playing the piano since she was three years old, and composing music for just as long. Raised on a dirt road outside of Athens, GA, the award-winning classical pianist and soprano now pursues a subtler muse and her unexpected journey has yielded a world of insight matched with “innovative, soulful music that will never go out of style.” mp3.com

Lilli’s early immersion in classical music is now met with blues, folk and soul traditions that conjure rich echoes of Odetta and Roberta Flack. She has self-produced four LPs since 2003, each capturing a unique snapshot of the American musical terrain, ever revealing the heart of a truthful sojourner.

Her most recent recording, “Out From Yonder: Songs, Mirrors and Incantations from Shambhala Land” is an all a cappella excursion into sacred song traditions from around the globe. Inspired by the landscapes of Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, CO, the collection reveals stirring melodies mingling with snaps, claps, drums, Hindu mantra and Tuvan throat singing. In August 2008, original selections from “Out From Yonder” rendered Lilli a regional finalist for the acclaimed Mountain Stage Newsong Competition.

Known to audiences from Seattle to Paris, Lilli has been moving audiences with her original music since 2002. With just her voice Lilli weaves a one woman expedition through universal themes like beauty, peace, self-declaration and without a doubt, love.

LiveProductions
Afro Hues (2003)
Beauty Beyond Reason (2005)

Featured Performances:
2003 National Black Arts Festival
2003 Represented BOSE in release of PAS
2004 Music Midtown (Atlanta)
2004 Southern Womyn's Music Festival
2005 Atlantis Music Conference
2006 Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications (Paris, France)
2006 Cutting Edge of the Campfire - Club Passim (Cambridge, MA)
2006 Composition Debut - Cambridge New School of Music (Cambridge, MA)
2007 Black Women's Arts Festival (Philadelphia)
2007/2008 Dreamtime Festival Mainstage (Paonia, CO)
2008 Mountain Stage NewSong Competition SW Regional Finalist

Current Compostion Projects
"Pyramids to the Projects, Projects to the Stars" - A Jazz Cantata for SATB soloists, chorus and orchestra. Libretto by Askia Toure
"Simon Brown" - an opera in 3 acts based on "The Days When the Animals Talked" by William John Faulkner