Resident producer Lolly Lewis studied voice, composition, and electronic music at UC Santa Cruz.  While still in college, she was recruited for the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival's Audio/Recording Institute, and she was Director of Recordings at San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1981 - 1993. 

In 1984 Lolly coordinated audio playback of her recording of John Adams' Light Over Water for its premiere performance in Los Angeles (Museum of Contemporary Art) and New York (Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music). In 1989 she toured with the Kronos Quartet providing live playback of the recorded portion of Steve Reich's Different Trains. In 1998 she toured with Chanticleer as production and stage manager. Recent producing projects include composer Anthony Davis' opera Tania (based on the story of Patty Hearst), a premiere recording of orchestral music by Harlem Renaissance composer Florence Price, and a program of new chamber music works by composer Mario Davidovsky. She is currently producing San Francisco's New Esterhazy Quartet in their 2-year project to record all of Haydn's string quartets in live performance.

As a member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Lolly sang on numerous recordings including their 1995 Grammy-winning Brahms Requiem.

 

Additional credits and affiliations:

Digital Editor for her own CD productions as well as for numerous additional recordings, including:
bulletZez Confrey Piano Music: Eteri Andjaparidze (Naxos) Grammy Nominee!
bullet Romantica: John Bayless, piano (Angel Records)
bulletStraight From the Street: The San Francisco Saxophone Quartet (Dorchester)
bullet Alexandre Tansman, Complete Guitar Music: Marc Regnier (Marco Polo)
bullet Tchaikovsky Piano Music: Oxana Yablonskaya (Naxos)

 

Primary session engineer:
bullet Light Over Water: music of John Adams (New Albion)
bullet Fogtropes: music of Ingram Marshall (New Albion)
bullet Threshold and Visions: music of David Cope (Folkways)

 

Assistant engineer:
bullet Adams, Harmonium, San Francisco Symphony (ECM)
bullet Adams, Harmonielehre, San Francisco Symphony (Nonesuch)
bullet Adams, The Chairman Dances, San Francisco Symphony (Nonesuch)
bullet La Koro Sutro: music of Lou Harrison (New Albion)

 

Festivals (studio installation and recording):
bulletTelluride Chamber Music Festival (Telluride, Colorado) 1984�85
bulletOK Mozart International Festival (Bartlesville, Oklahoma) 1985
bulletAspen Music Festival 1978�79

 

Sound Design, Live Engineering and Concert Management:
bullet Production and stage manager, Mexican Baroque (Chanticleer), Northern California Tour, 1997.
bulletLive sound engineer for Kronos Quartet, two national tours (1990)
bulletSynthesized cannon fire and offstage bells for SF Symphony performances (1984,85)
bullet Directed sound installation for live performance of Adams� Light Over Water at opening of Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), 1984; mixed live performance of this piece, both in Los Angeles and at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1984.
bullet Created interactive sound system for choreographer Susan Foster's CorresponDances: Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and New York City, 1979

 

Affiliations
bulletNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (SF Chapter President 1987 - 1990)
bulletColorado Rocky Mountain School (currently Vice-President, Alumni Association)

 

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