Genevieve Lacey
(recorders)
Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso who performs music spanning ten centuries. She works in contexts as diverse as her medieval duo with Danish pipe and tabor player Poul Høxbro, guest appearances with the Black Arm Band, who present music of the Australian indigenous experience, and her role in Barrie Kosky's production of Liza Lim's opera The Navigator . As artistic director, Genevieve will direct the 2010 and 2012 Four Winds Festivals.
Genevieve is passionate about contemporary music and she has collaborated with, commissioned, premiered and recorded music by a host of composers from across the world, including: Steve Adam, Damian Barbeler, Richard Barrett, Elena Kats-Chernin, David Chisholm, Brett Dean, Chris Dench, 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, dj olive, Maurizio Pisati, John Rodgers, Bob Scott, Peter Sculthorpe, John Surman, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Max de Wardener, Lawrence Whiffin and Jason Yarde.
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, 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.
As a concerto soloist, Genevieve has appeared with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Melbourne, West Australian, Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. She has a substantial recording history with ABC Classics, and her newest album, weaver of fictions , was released in 2008.
An active member of the Australian arts community, Genevieve sits on the Astra, Elision and Australian Music Centre boards. She had a three-year position as artistic director of the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival and has been a member of the Musica Viva Artistic Review Panel as well as judging panels for the Ian Potter Music Commissions and Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award. Genevieve is a guest curator for the 3MBS FM inaugural Musical Portraits live-to-air concert series in 2009.
Genevieve holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from the University of Melbourne (Australia), the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (Denmark). She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne and in 2009 is an artist in residence at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her work has won her multiple awards including an ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award, Best Classical Recording), Freedman Fellowship, Churchill Fellowship, Best Performance (Australian Classical Music Awards) and Outstanding Musician (Melbourne Prize for Music).
