A.C. Lewis is Principal Timpanist with the Santa Rosa Symphony. He earned a Bachelors at the S F Conservatory of Music, a Masters at the Juilliard School, as well as diplomas from Mannes College of Music, Lewis-Clark State University, the Universidad Juan Corpas, and San Francisco State University. Lewis performed for 20 years with the San Francisco Symphony with the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Orquesta Nacional de Colombia, the New Zealand Symphony, and as well as luminaries like Ritchie Havens, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Zappa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Steve Reich, YoYo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland, and Pierre Boulez.