Judy Lewis

b. Judy Levine, 19 Feb 1958, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. From age group seven, Lewis analyzed traditional piano, subsequently earning competitions through the entire Midwest. In NEW YORK she continuing with her research, right now at Columbia University or college, but steadily moved from the analysis of music to the analysis of religious beliefs. When she was 20, she relocated to Israel where she continuing to execute while also looking for religious meaning in her existence. Although successful like a performer, in 1981 she forgotten playing completely to focus on religious matters and in addition wedded a fellow pupil. It was not really until 1991, today mom of four kids, that Lewis started playing the piano once again. In 1995, her relationship finished and she made a decision to return to a profession in music. Furthermore to executing, Lewis had attained the necessary certification on the Rubin Academy of Music within the 90s and could support herself and her kids by teaching. Although her skills hadn’t waned through the lengthy lay down off, Lewis was dissatisfied using the traditional type and by the middle-90s had considered jazz. The catalyst emerged in LA when for the very first time she went to a jazz concert and she was shortly practising thoroughly and familiarizing herself with the task of jazz pianists such as for example Chick Corea, Costs Evans, Tommy Flanagan, Crimson Garland and Keith Jarrett. She also started composing her very own music, formed an organization, the trunk Alley Jazz Quintet, and produced her jazz debut in 1996. By the next season, though, Lewis got brought the group right down to a trio. Shortly she had a solid popularity in Israel, a thing that was steadily expanded through the next couple of years through travels of European countries and appearances in america. In 2002 she released a single set, Waiting around On A FRESH Day, and, in 2003, shaped a fusion music group, Phoenix Over Manhattan, where she performed keyboards. Initially electronic, 2004 discovered POM changing for an acoustic music group and No Targets was greeted warmly by critics. Lively, enthusiastic and established, Lewis has taken to her idea of jazz a vibrancy which was welcomed by many because of its contrast towards the soft jazz outpourings of the first 00s. Lewis also operates a documenting business, Visionary Insomniac Information.