Genevieve Lacey

Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso who creates new possibilities for her instrument. Passionate about contemporary music, she has commissioned, created, premiered and recorded scores of new works. She has a substantial recording catalogue with Move Records and ABC Classics, and a high-profile career as soloist with orchestras and ensembles around the world. For 2012–13 she held a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.

She performs music spanning ten centuries, 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 Liza Lim’s opera The Navigator, directed by Barrie Kosky. She created en masse with London filmmaker Marc Silver, and the music for Namatjira, by Scott Rankin, the Namatjira family and Big hART. As Artistic Director she directed the Four Winds Festival from 2010 to 2012.

She has performed at many of the world’s pre-eminent festivals, including The Proms, Paris Festival d’Automne, Moscow Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Klangboden Wien, Copenhagen Summer, the David Oistrakh Festival in Estonia, Seoul International, Cheltenham, Huddersfield and Spitalfields. Her awards include an ARIA, a Helpmann for Namatjira, a Churchill Fellowship, a Freedman Fellowship, Best Performance at the Australian Music Awards, and Outstanding Musician at the Melbourne Prize for Music. She holds academic and performance degrees, including a doctorate, in music and English literature from institutions in Melbourne, Switzerland and Denmark.