Discography

Genevieve Lacey, Recorders

Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso, serial collaborator and artistic director, with a significant recording catalogue and a career as an international soloist.

 

Lacey has commissioned and premiered works by composers as diverse as Erkki-Sven Tüür (Estonia), Elena Kats-Chernin (Australia), John Surman (UK), Peter Sculthorpe (Australia), Christian Fennesz (Austria), Ben Frost (Iceland), Liza Lim (Australia), Paul Grabowsky (Australia) and Nico Muhly (USA). Lacey also creates large-scale collaborative projects, recent examples including Pleasure Garden (a listening garden), 1-Infinity (a music-dance piece with Jun Tian Fang, Beijing Dance Theatre, Dance North, Gideon Obarzanek and Max de Wardener, premiering 2018), Life in Music (a 5-part series, written, composed and narrated by Lacey for ABC Radio National, 2015), Namatjira (a theatre piece, and now a feature documentary film, 2010-17).

 

Lacey’s wide-ranging musical interests have seen her playing for the Queen in Westminster Abbey, representing Australian culture with a performance at the Lindau International Convention of Nobel Laureates, playing as a concerto soloist in the Proms, making music in a prison in remote Western Australia, and at the opening night of the London Jazz Festival. Her repertoire spans ten centuries and collaborators include filmmakers Sophie Raymond and Marc Silver, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Danish pipe and tabor player Poul Høxbro, playwright-director Scott Rankin, and iconic Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Lacey has also performed as soloist with Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Concerto Copenhagen, Tapiola and Kymi Sinfonietta, St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and all the major Australian Symphony Orchestras.

 

Lacey has won two ARIAs (Australian Recording Industry Awards), a Helpmann Award, Australia Council, Freedman and Churchill Fellowships and Outstanding Musician, Melbourne Prize for Music. She holds degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from universities in Melbourne, Switzerland and Denmark. Genevieve Lacey is inaugural Artistic Director of FutureMakers, Musica Viva Australia’s artist leadership program, Chair of the Australian Music Centre board, guest curator and artistic advisor to UKARIA.




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Discography



Erkki-Sven Tüür

Illuminatio for viola and orchestra 

Whistles and Whispers from Uluru for recorders and string orchestra

Symphony No. 8


Lawrence Power, viola

Genevieve Lacey, recorders

Tapiola Sinfonietta

Olari Elts

ODE 1303-2



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