Dr. Lewis has been a member of the organ faculty of the Juilliard School Pre-College division since 1993, and adjunct assistant professor of organ at Westminster Choir College since 2006. His students range in age from teenagers to graduate students. He has presented solo organ recitals in the United States, Canada, and France, has been a featured artist on WNYC, New York, and has performed the complete organ works of César Franck several times, including at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City.

At The Juilliard School, Matthew Lewis completed the doctor of musical arts degree as a student of Jon Gillock. While earning the master of music degree, also at Juilliard, he was the winner of the organ competition, resulting in a performance of Barber's Toccata Festiva with the Juilliard Symphony in Alice Tully Hall. Dr. Lewis is the former recipient of a Fulbright Grant and the Annette Kade Fellowship from the Council of International Education for study in Paris, where he was a student of organ-virtuoso Marie-Madeleine Duruflé. He studied choral conducting with Robert Page.

Dr. Midroit has performed live music for animation and silent films at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center, in a partnership project headed by 2006 Academy Award Winner John Canemaker, director of the animation program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He also recorded Carlos Delgado's Polemics for piano and electronic sounds for the CRI label, as well as music for independent film. He has participated in many world premieres, including Ruth Schonthal's opera Jocasta; performed for the Juilliard Dance Ensemble and the American Repertory Ballet; and collaborated with dancer/choreographer Renata Celichowska at NYU.