In 2002, Lewis received a MacArthur Fellowship. His many honors also include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), a United States Artists Fellowship (2011), the Alpert Award in the Arts (1999), and the American Musicological Society's Music in American Culture Award in 2009. He became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2016, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Lewis has received four honorary degrees: Doctor of Music from the University of Edinburgh in 2015, Doctor of Humane Letters from New College of Florida in 2017, Doctor of Music from Harvard University in 2018, and Doctor of Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. Since 2004, he has served as Edward H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University in New York City. He previously taught at the University of California, San Diego. Lewis is featured extensively in Unyazi of the Bushveld (2005), directed by Aryan Kaganof, a documentary about the first symposium of electronic music held in Africa. Lewis gave an invited keynote lecture and performance at NIME-06, the sixth international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, which was held at IRCAM, Paris, in June 2006. In 2008, his work "Morning Blues for Yvan" was featured on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music (Bridge Records), produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike. Also in 2008, Lewis published a book-length history of the AACM titled A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press). The book received the 2009 American Book Award. Lewis later wrote an opera based on the book, titling it Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera; the work premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2015. In April 2022, the International Contemporary Ensemble announced the appointment of Lewis as its next artistic director, effective April 2022. Discography As sole leader Solo Trombone Record (Sackville, 1976) George Lewis (Black Saint, 1977) George Lewis Douglas Ewart (Black Saint, 1978) Homage to Charles Parker (Black Saint, 1979) Chicago Slow Dance (1977) (Lovely, 1981) Yankees (Charly, 1982) Change of Season (Soul Note, 1986) Dutch Masters (Soul Note, 1987) Sachse, Joe: Berlin Tango (Jazzwerkstatt, 1987) Voyager (Avant, 1993) Changing With the Times (New World, 1993) The Usual Turmoil and Other Duets (Music & Arts, 1998) Conversations (Incus, 1998) Endless Shout (Tzadik, 2000) The Shadowgraph