musician

Genevieve Lacey is a musician, artistic director, creator, improviser and serial collaborator. She has made a career as a recorder virtuoso, imagining and presenting new possibilities for her instrument. Alongside her substantial recording career (ABC Classics) and her high profile work as an international soloist, she also has a significant track record as commissioner and author of new works. For 2012-13, she is the recipient of a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Genevieve’s work en masse, created with London filmmaker Marc Silver, premiered in 2010, and is touring nationally and internationally 2011-13. The electroacoustic score for this work was created in collaboration with Jim Atkins, Lawrence English, John Rodgers, Nico Muhly, dj olive, Christian Fennesz, Taylor Deupree, Steve Adam and Ben Frost.
In 2010, Genevieve and Jim Atkins created the music for the award-winning Big hART/Company B Belvoir St production Namatjira. Namatjira tours Australia 2011-12.
As Artistic Director, Genevieve directs the Four Winds Festival 2009-12. Her work as artistic director combines the excellence of her own practice with her passionate advocacy for the need for creativity in our communities. Four Winds is based in Bermagui NSW, a community of 1352 people, and together, they are exploring new ways of making, presenting and living with art.
Genevieve’s artistic collaborators and colleagues include Marc Silver (filmmaker), Jim Atkins (sound designer/engineer), Scott Rankin (playwright/director), John Bolton (director/story teller) and Stephen Grant (bass), Oren Ambarchi (sound artist), Michael Peck (artist), Sophie Raymond (animator), Barrie Kosky (director), Helen Herbertson (choreographer), in addition to composers Steve Adam, Damian Barbeler, Richard Barrett, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brett Dean, Taylor Deupree, Ross Edwards, Moritz Eggert, Lawrence English, Christian Fennesz, Andrew Ford, Ben Frost, Paul Grabowsky, Iain Grandage, Andrea Keller, James Ledger, Liza Lim, Nico Muhly, Tim O’Dwyer, dj olive, Maurizio Pisati, John Rodgers, Bob Scott, Peter Sculthorpe, John Surman, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Max de Wardener, Lawrence Whiffin and Jason Yarde.
Her long-term musical collaborators include the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Black Arm Band, Karin Schaupp, Poul Høxbro, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Flinders Quartet, Marshall McGuire, Neal Peres Da Costa and Daniel Yeadon, Elision Ensemble, Jane Gower and Lars Ulrik Mortensen. She has also performed as soloist with Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Concerto Copenhagen, St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Melbourne, West Australian, Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.
Genevieve has performed at many of the world’s pre-eminent music and arts festivals including The Proms, Paris Festival d’Automne, Moscow Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Klangboden Wien, Seoul International Music Festival, Copenhagen Summer, Sablé, Montalbane, MaerzMusik, Europäisches Musikfest, Mitte Europa, David Oistrakh Festival Estonia, Adelaide, Brisbane, Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Lichfield, Melbourne, Spitalfields, Sydney, Perth and Warwick Festivals.
Genevieve sits on several boards (Australian Music Centre, Astra, Elision) and judging panels (Potter Commissions, Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, City of Melbourne Arts Grants). Her work has won her multiple awards including an ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award, Best Classical Recording), Freedman Fellowship, Churchill Fellowship, Best Performance (AMC/APRA for Ledger’s Line Drawing), Outstanding Musician (Melbourne Prize for Music), Excellence in a Regional Area (AMC/APRA for Four Winds), State Award for Excellence (AMC/APRA for en masse).
She holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from universities in Melbourne, Switzerland and Denmark.

Genevieve Lacey is a musician, artistic director, creator, improviser and serial collaborator. She has made a career as a recorder virtuoso, imagining and presenting new possibilities for her instrument. Alongside her substantial recording career (ABC Classics) and her high profile work as an international soloist, she also has a significant track record as commissioner and author of new works. For 2012-13, she is the recipient of a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.

Genevieve’s work en masse, created with London filmmaker Marc Silver, premiered in 2010, and is touring nationally and internationally 2011-13. The electroacoustic score for this work was created in collaboration with Jim Atkins, Lawrence English, John Rodgers, Nico Muhly, dj olive, Christian Fennesz, Taylor Deupree, Steve Adam and Ben Frost.

In 2010, Genevieve and Jim Atkins created the music for the award-winning Big hART/Company B Belvoir St production Namatjira. Namatjira tours Australia 2011-12.As Artistic Director, Genevieve directs the Four Winds Festival 2009-12. Her work as artistic director combines the excellence of her own practice with her passionate advocacy for the need for creativity in our communities. Four Winds is based in Bermagui NSW, a community of 1352 people, and together, they are exploring new ways of making, presenting and living with art.

Genevieve’s artistic collaborators and colleagues include Marc Silver (filmmaker), Jim Atkins (sound designer/engineer), Scott Rankin (playwright/director), John Bolton (director/story teller) and Stephen Grant (bass), Oren Ambarchi (sound artist), Michael Peck (artist), Sophie Raymond (animator), Barrie Kosky (director), Helen Herbertson (choreographer), in addition to composers Steve Adam, Damian Barbeler, Richard Barrett, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brett Dean, Taylor Deupree, Ross Edwards, Moritz Eggert, Lawrence English, Christian Fennesz, Andrew Ford, Ben Frost, Paul Grabowsky, Iain Grandage, Andrea Keller, James Ledger, Liza Lim, Nico Muhly, Tim O’Dwyer, dj olive, Maurizio Pisati, John Rodgers, Bob Scott, Peter Sculthorpe, John Surman, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Max de Wardener, Lawrence Whiffin and Jason Yarde.

Her long-term musical collaborators include the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Black Arm Band, Karin Schaupp, Poul Høxbro, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Flinders Quartet, Marshall McGuire, Neal Peres Da Costa and Daniel Yeadon, Elision Ensemble, Jane Gower and Lars Ulrik Mortensen. She has also performed as soloist with Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Concerto Copenhagen, St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Melbourne, West Australian, Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.

Genevieve has performed at many of the world’s pre-eminent music and arts festivals including The Proms, Paris Festival d’Automne, Moscow Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Klangboden Wien, Seoul International Music Festival, Copenhagen Summer, Sablé, Montalbane, MaerzMusik, Europäisches Musikfest, Mitte Europa, David Oistrakh Festival Estonia, Adelaide, Brisbane, Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Lichfield, Melbourne, Spitalfields, Sydney, Perth and Warwick Festivals.

Genevieve sits on several boards (Australian Music Centre, Astra, Elision) and judging panels (Potter Commissions, Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, City of Melbourne Arts Grants). Her work has won her multiple awards including an ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award, Best Classical Recording), Freedman Fellowship, Churchill Fellowship, Best Performance (AMC/APRA for Ledger’s Line Drawing), Outstanding Musician (Melbourne Prize for Music), Excellence in a Regional Area (AMC/APRA for Four Winds), State Award for Excellence (AMC/APRA for en masse).

She holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from universities in Melbourne, Switzerland and Denmark.

© 2009 Genevieve Lacey