Alice Joy Lewis
Director of Ottawa Suzuki Strings
Violinist Alice Joy Lewis founded the Ottawa Suzuki Strings in 1966 and is also the founder and director of the Ottawa Suzuki Institute Mid-Southwest and the SOUND ENCOUNTERS programs.
Mrs. Lewis has dedicated her life to teaching and is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the Suzuki Association of the Americas. In North America, her teaching activities have taken her to several locations in Canada and across the US from Alaska to Hawaii and coast to coast. She has taught at the Suzuki Method World Conventions in Dublin, Ireland, and Matsumoto, Japan, as well as at the Pan Pacific Conference in Adelaide, Australia.
Violin students of Alice Joy Lewis have been selected to solo with area orchestras and to solo at several Suzuki Method World Conventions. Many of her students have pursued music degrees at well known conservatories and University schools of music.
Mrs. Lewis is a registered teacher trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and has served the Association in numerous capacities including delivering the keynote address at the Association’s Seventh National Conference.
Mrs. Lewis holds both music education and violin performance degrees from the University of Kansas where she studied with Raymond Cerf. She also studied with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan.