Ancient and new! Traversing a thousand years of music for recorder, leading Australian performer weaves together an enticing program of traditional tunes, baroque classics and newly composed music.

Genevieve Lacey Recorder Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso. Her repertoire spans ten centuries, and she collaborates on projects as diverse as her medieval duo with Poul Høxbro, performances with the Black Arm Band, and her role in ’s production of ’s opera ‘The Navigator’.

Genevieve has a substantial recording history with ABC Classics, and her newest album, ‘weaver of fictions’, was released in 2008.

As a concerto soloist Genevieve has appeared with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music (UK), English Concert (UK), Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the , West Australian, Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. Genevieve has performed at all the major Australian arts festivals and her European festival appearances have included the Proms, Klangboden Wien, Copenhagen Summer, Sablé, Montalbane, MaerzMusik, Europäisches Musikfest, Mitte Europa, Spitalfields, Cheltenham, Warwick, Lichfield and Huddersfield.

Genevieve is strongly committed to contemporary music and collaborations on new works include those with composers , Erkki‐Sven Tuur, Moritz Eggert, Elena Kats‐ Chernin, James Ledger, John Rodgers, Damian Barbeler, Liza Lim, John Surman, Maurizio Pisati, Jason Yarde, Steve Adam, Max de Wardener, Bob Scott and Andrew Ford. As Artistic Director, Genevieve will direct the 2010 and 2012 Four Winds Festivals. In 2009, she will also design a composer mentorship/residency program for APRA‐AMCOS, and program a season of concerts for the 3MBS inaugural Musical Portraits series.

Genevieve holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from the (), the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (). She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne and in 2009 is an artist in residence at the VCA. Her work has won her multiple awards including an ARIA (Best Classical Recording 01), Freedman Fellowship (01), Churchill Fellowship (06), Best Performance (Australian Classical Music Awards 06) and Outstanding Musician (Melbourne Prize for Music 07).

Photo credit Monty Coles

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REVIEWS

Ballarat Courier 16 January 2006 “It is easy to run out of superlatives when describing the performances of Genevieve Lacey. Her musicality, technical prowess, and irresistible personality in everything she plays on the recorder make each concert special.” Bronislaw Sozanski

The Guardian 24 June 2006 “a performance of great grace and dexterity” Tim Ashley

The Adelaide Advertiser 4 October 2004 "standout artists were indisputably Genevieve Lacey, whose cooing recorder tones melted in the mind. Genevieve Lacey's brilliant performance of Jacob van Eyck's Amarilli remains especially strongly in the memory, her ability to communicate raw emotion through an instrument with such limitations both astonishing and delighting her listeners." Rodney Smith

Adelaide Advertiser 24 May 2002 "... Genevieve Lacey is a virtuoso of the recorder... [she] is living, breathing proof that specialists need only apply. The technique is frankly superhuman, the musicianship supreme." E. Silsbury