Genevieve Lacey is acclaimed as a recorder virtuoso. She performs repertoire spanning ten centuries, from her medieval duo with Poul Høxbro to her contemporary roles in the Elision Ensemble. She has recorded multiple CDs and in 2001 her first release through ABC Classics, Il flauto dolce, won an ARIA Award for Best Classical Recording.

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

Genevieve is a champion of contemporary music and regularly commissions, records and performs new works. She collaborates with Australian composers Brett Dean, Elena Kats-Chernin, Liza Lim, James Ledger, John Rodgers, Andrew Ford, David Chisholm, Steve Adam, and Damian Barbeler, UK composers John Surman, Jason Yarde and Max de Wardener and European composers Erkki-Sven Tüür (Estonia), Moritz Eggert (Germany) and Maurizio Pisati (Italy). Her recording project, Weaver of Fictions, is a solo CD of contemporary acoustic and electroacoustic works, which will be released by ABC Classics in March 2008. Genevieve is very interested in cross-artform collaborations, and is currently devising a project with artist/filmmaker Marc Silver for 2010.

Genevieve is an active member of the Australian music community. She served as a judge on the 2005 and 2007 Ian Potter Composer Fellowships Awards, has been on the artistic review panel for Musica Viva since 2005, and is a director of the Australian Music Centre and Astra Chamber Music Society boards. Between 2001-3, Genevieve was the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival — Australia’s longest running early music festival. She has recently been announced as the Artistic Director for the Four Winds Festival for 2010 and 2012.

Genevieve holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from the University of Melbourne, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (Denmark). She graduated from each of these academies as the most outstanding student and since 2002 has been a Fellow of the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne. In 2001, Genevieve was awarded the inaugural Music Council of Australia Freedman Fellowship. In 2006, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and won the Best Performance category in the Australian Classical Music Awards for her performance of James Ledger’s concerto Line Drawing. In 2007, she won the Outstanding Performer category of the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Music. In 2009, she will take up a position as artist in residence at the Victorian College of the Arts. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.