How do you pursue an art form you love when you no longer feel that you belong?


In Nervous Breakdown in G Minor, Lewis recounts grappling with his queerness and mental health while being raised Mormon, pursuing classical cello at a competitive conservatory, and facing the realities of the modern day musician. Lewis reenacts his journey in segments with storytelling, then musically expresses them through a performance of a cello sonata. A tumultuous piece that mirrors the progression of his story.

By sharing an unfiltered range of experiences from discovery, joy, doubt, calamity to rebirth, this show is a practice of exploring identity and reclaiming one’s narrative to make a more personal and thus universal connection to music.