 The effort strengthened U.S. State Department regional objectives by building bonds between the two cultures, and won the first Air Force Public Affairs Director's Communication Excellence Award for Innovation ever given to a band.Lewis formerly served as executive director of the Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and choral director and music department chair at Herbert J. Saunders Middle School in Manassas, Virginia where he also taught orchestra and theory courses, and developed a music therapy curriculum for students with special needs.He has taught music at the Haverford School for Boys in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and the Conservatory of Musical Arts in Haddonfield, NJ.