Exceptional violinist Geneva Lewis joins the podcast! Hailing from New Zealand, Geneva Lewis is the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Other recent accolades include Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize and being named a Finalist at the 2018 Naumburg Competition. R.J. asks about her decision into classical music, her violin, are violins living entities, and why the arts are important.

You can find Geneva at https://www.genevalewisviolinist.com/

More info about the Center for the Arts can be found: https://arts.pepperdine.edu/

Music Composer: Jeremy Zerbe