This is our SPO’s Principal Harp Emily Lewis’s second appearance with the Salem Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also been a featured soloist with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, the North Shore Symphony Orchestra, the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, the Concord Chamber Music Society, and the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra. She is a sought after freelance musician who has performed with Ray Charles, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Yes, Judy Collins, and the Irish Tenors and more. She is one of the pioneers of performing and researching the effects of music in specific hospital settings, most notably Neonatal ICUs. 

Ms. Lewis studied with renowned harpist Lucile Lawrence from age 7 through her degree in Performance from the School for the Arts at Boston University, and after. Ms. Lewis has been a first place winner of several competitions, and the only two time winner of the Elizabeth Herbert Hobin Harp Scholarship prize.

Past teaching posts have included Gordon College, Boston University, MIT, as well as top regional private academies  grades 9-12. Retired from academia, Ms. Lewis continues to teach private lessons in her home studio in Salem, MA.