Liza Lim
Liza Lim is a composer, educator and researcher whose music focusses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Beauty, rage and noise, ecological connection, and female spiritual lineages are at the heart of recent works.
Her work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018) has found especially wide resonance internationally. Extensively commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and ensembles, Lim is Sculthorpe Chair of Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Lim’s catalogue ranges from solos and chamber music embedded in essential repertoire lists worldwide, to five strikingly different operas.
Compositions by Liza Lim appear on
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Daniel Pini presents five works for solo cello by living Australian composers. Victoria Pham, Brett Dean, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Liza Lim and Carl Vine each shape a distinct sound world, offering a vivid survey of contemporary Australian composition.