Roy Lewis was awarded the Karl Kraeuter Award for chamber music upon graduation from the Manhattan School of Music and moved almost immediately into the role of second violinist in two important string quartets of his generation. He spent a year with the Kronos Quartet before joining the Manhattan String Quartet, performing with the latter group for 17 years. The Manhattan Quartet was featured in weekly, national radio broadcasts from Music Mountain and performed internationally, logging three major tours of the former Soviet Union. They were the first American group to record the 15 string quartets of Shostakovich and performed complete cycles of those works in Paris and New York City. He also served on the faculty of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In addition to his duties at Wicked, he appears with a great variety of orchestras and chamber music groups in the music halls of the New York area, great and small.
