Carol Lewis is a renowned soloist and ensemble performer whose viola da gamba playing has been called "wonderfully vivid—brilliantly florid" ( The Boston Herald ). She has demonstrated her virtuosity and versatility many times, as a soloist in the U.S. and abroad. She is most frequently heard as an ensemble musician, having toured with leading chamber groups in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Carol studied at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland and at the New England Conservatory and has served on the faculty of Amherst Early Music, New England Conservatory, and summer conclaves of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

She is co-founder of the Society for Historically Informed Performance, and is both producer and performer with Early Music Afternoons at the Somerville Museum.

You can hear Carol Lewis performing with us on the following currently available recordings:

• The Sacred Bridge (Erato)
• Tristan & Iseult (Erato)
• Farewell Unkind: Songs and Dances of John Dowland (Erato)
• Jean Gilles, Requiem (Erato)
• Musique Judeo-Baroque (Harmonia Mundi)
• Lamentations - Holy Week in Provence (Erato)
• New Britain (Erato)
• Nueva España (Erato)
• An American Christmas (Erato)
• Noël, Noël: A French Christmas (Erato)
• A Renaissance Christmas (Nonesuch)
• A Baroque Christmas (Nonesuch)
• Angels (Erato)

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