Lewis Ingham is an Australian composer based in Ballarat and Melbourne (VIC). His compositional voice is tinged with a modernist aesthetic, but his music is very much for the present era, often exploring themes of climate change and ecology. Lewis' compositions have been admired for their depth in instrumental colour and harmony, and have been performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, the Australian Youth Orchestra, Arcadia Winds, and Hypercube (USA).

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Recognised for his talents through numerous awards, scholarships, and commissions, Lewis creates depth and detail within his compositions by slowly unfurling and transforming melodic gestures within the web of his personal and defined harmonic language. The innate delicacy and intricacy within his music is apparent in his compositions for both small and large instrumental forces.

Lewis is a current PhD candidate at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (University of Melbourne) under the tutelage of acclaimed Australian composer Elliott Gyger. Lewis' research is concerned with contextualising how his compositional voice and the ecological themes he explores in his music fits into the broader landscape of Australian art music. The cornerstone of his artistic research is a recent large-scale solo piano work, Ec(h)o, which explores the traces of human existence in the environment and was first performed by Danaë Killian in January, 2024.​​

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Lewis is an associate artist with the Australian Music Centre: https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/ingham-lewis 

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Lewis lives and composes on the lands of the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung people, and pays respects to their Elders, past and present.