Dennis
Lewin, born on August 15th 1959, in Cleveland Ohio began piano
lessons at the age of 4 with his grandfather,the late great
concert pianist Joseph Lewin.
At age 6, Dennis began studying classical piano with Margaret
Heller an Alumni teacher from The Cleveland Institute of Music.
After Miss Heller’s retirement 4 years later, Dennis auditioned
for concert pianist and teacher Dr. Andrius Kuprevicius at The
Cleveland Music School Settlement. He remained with Dr. Kuprevicious
for 9 years.
When Kuprevicious became the head of the piano department at
Cleveland State University. Dennis followed and also majored
in musical theory with Dr Heywood Alexander.
Aside from his classical piano , at the age of 24 Dennis signed
his first recording contract with Scotti Bros. / CBS records
for the rock album “Beau Coup” for which Dennis wrote all songs
and lyrics.
Two years later, after struggling with the record label, Dennis
and Beau Coup signed another recording contract with Amherst
/ A&M records. It was under this label that “Beau Coup” released
the album “Born and Raised on Rock and Roll”. This album proved
a great success. Other than the song “Hold on Me”, Dennis wrote
all of the songs and lyrics for the album. The song “Sweet Rachel”,
reached the mid 50’s of the “Billboard Hot 100” singles chart
and received much radio and video play all over the world including
MTV. Songs “Still in my Heart”, “Somewhere Out in the Night”
and “Born and Raised on Rock and Roll” were all picked by Billboard
as “Hot Picks”. After the band officially disbanded, Dennis
went on to open his own, very successful piano studio where
he teaches more than 35 students weekly.
You
can find out more about Dennis, and his music at www.dennislewinmusic.com
