Genevieve Lacey

Genevieve Lacey is an Australian musician and recorder virtuoso, working as a performer, creator, curator, and cultural leader. Shey plays handmade recorders made by Joanne Saunders and Fred Morgan. In her collection, she also has instruments by David Coomber, Monika Musch, Michael Grinter, Paul Whinray, and Herbert Paetzold.

Early life and education Genevieve Lacey was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the third of four children of Ann and Roderic Lacey. The family moved to Australia in 1980. They lived in Canberra for one year, where all the Lacey children learnt music from Judith Clingan.

She moved to Melbourne to attend the University of Melbourne from 1991 to 1994, studying English Literature and Music (recorder with Ruth Wilkinson, oboe with Stephen Robinson). Relocating to Denmark to attend the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Odense (1996–98), she received a Diploma in recorder performance in the class of Dan Laurin. She has since been based in Melbourne.

Career as a recorder virtuoso As a recorder virtuoso, Lacey has performed at the Lindau International Convention of Nobel Laureates, for Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, on a basketball court on Thursday Island with Australian indigenous ensemble The Black Arm Band, as a concerto soloist in the Royal Albert Hall for BBC Proms and at the opening night of the London Jazz Festival. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including Australian Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Kymi and Tapiola Sinfonietta Finland, Concerto Copenhagen, English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and the Melbourne, Adelaide, West Australian, Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. and actor Katherine Tonkin. Lacey’s recent works include Breathing Space (2023), a major permanent sound installation for the National Museum of Australia, and Consort of the Moon (2023), a performance piece created with Erkki Veltheim for Rising and Brisbane Festivals. Other collaborations include multidisciplinary works Soliloquy (2018) and one infinity (2018) that both explore the powerful combination of music and movement. In Soliloquy, 40 untrained participants share the stage with a virtuoso musician and a professional dancer to radically re-invent the conventions of a solo recital. one infinity is a cross-cultural collaboration between musicians, dancers and choreographers from China, Australia and the United Kingdom that takes inspiration from the ancient Chinese tale of Zhi Yin. This collaboration is a fusion of music, field recordings and technology (including motion-tracking cameras), and combines 17th century melodies of Jacob van Eyck with contemporary electro-acoustic sound art. an autobiographical journey of Lacey's creative life that explores the feelings of being a musician.

Works 2023: Consort of the Moon, performance piece for Rising and Brisbane Festival, Major Festivals Initiative 2023: Breathing Space, permanent sound installation, National Museum of Australia 2018: Soliloquy, participatory music-dance ritual 2018: one infinity, cross-cultural music-dance performance 2016: Pleasure Garden, a kinetic sound installation experienced by 30,000+ people in Australia and Europe 2015: Acoustic Life of Sheds, a suite of new music, performed in sheds for Big hART 2015: Life in Music, radio series for ABC Radio 2014–2020: Recorder Queen, animated documentary film 2010: En Masse, live music-film installation

Artistic director–curator Lacey is artistic director for Finding Our Voice, was a member of the curatorial team for Rising 2019–20, is the artistic advisor to UKARIA, and was the chamber music curator of A Brief History of Time for the 2019 Adelaide International Arts Festival. In 2018, she was the artist in residence for the Melbourne Recital Centre, and the curator and artistic director for the Whoever You Are Come Forth celebrations for the centenary of St Mary's College, University of Melbourne. Other curatorial roles include the inaugural curator for UKARIA 24 in 2016, creator, curator and presenter for Words and Music at Wheeler Centre in 2014, Four Winds Festival from 2008 until 2012, and the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival between 1999 and 2003. She has provided support and guidance to emerging artists as a creative and entrepreneurial mentor, with positions including mentoring for the Freedman Fellowship Finalists 2019-2020 and the Australian National Academy of Music's Fellowship program between 2014 and 2016. Label: ABC Classics (ABC 4722262)

Released: 2004 Label: ABC Classics (ABC 4761552)

Released: 2006 Label: ABC Classics (ABC 4765249)

Released: 2008 Label: ABC Classics (ABC 4763180)

Released: 2009 Label: Flinders Quartet

Released: May 2012 Label: Andrea Keller (AK001)

Released: October 2012 Label: ABC Music

Released: 2013 Label: ABC Music (3747193)

Released: 7 August 2015 Label: ABC Music (4811874)

Released: 8 January 2016 Label: ABC Music (4812370)

Released: October 2016 Label: ABC Music

Released: November 2017 Label: ABC Music (4816480)

Released: February 2018 Label: Ondine (ODE 1303-2)

Released: October 2018 Label: ABC Music (4816480)

Released: 24 March 2023 Label: ABC Music (ABCL0057)

Filmography

Publications McKinnon, C. (2020). Adelaide Festival 60 Years. Amsterdam University Press. Lacey, Genevieve (2021). 'Life in Music', in Creative Research in Music: Informed Practice, Innovation and Transcendence (1st ed.). Routledge.

Awards and nominations AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. 2022 Bower (with Marshall McGuire) Best Independent Classical Album or EP ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. 2001 Il Flauto Dolce (with Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Paul Dyer) Best Classical Album 2002 Piracy: Baroque music stolen for the recorder (with Linda Kent) Best Classical Album 2023 Breathing Space Best Classical Album

Australian Women in Music Awards The Australian Women in Music Awards is an annual event that celebrates outstanding women in the Australian Music Industry who have made significant and lasting contributions in their chosen field. They commenced in 2018. 2021 Genevieve Lacey Excellence in Classical Music Award National Live Music Awards The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016. 2019 Genevieve Lacey Live Classical Act of the Year

Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards commenced in 1984 and recognise outstanding achievements in dance, drama, comedy, music, opera, circus and puppetry.

Other awards John Truscott Artists Award for Consort of the Moon, Rising, 2023 Green Room for best composition and sound design for one infinity, with Max de Wardener, Wang Peng, Jim Atkins, 2019 Estonian Music Best Classical Recording 2018 for Tüür Illuminatio Fellowship, Australia Council for the Arts, Music Board 2012–2013 Excellence in a Regional Area, Art Music Awards APRA-AMC – Four Winds Festival 2011 Helpmann Award, best touring production – Namatjira 2012 State Award for Excellence, Art Music Awards APRA-AMC – En Masse 2011 Outstanding Musician, Melbourne Prize for Music 2007 Best performance, Art Music Awards APRA-AMC – Ledger's Line Drawing 2006 Churchill Fellowship 2006 Music Council of Australia/Freedman Fellowship for Australian performer of superb achievement 2001 Helen M. Schutt Scholarship, most highly ranked female research student 1999 Most outstanding graduate, Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Denmark 1998 First place, Dean's Honours List, Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, 1994 Welsford Smithers Travelling Scholarship, University of Melbourne 1994 Queen's Trust Award for outstanding young Australians 1994 Catherine Grace McWilliam Prize for most outstanding graduate, University of Melbourne 1994

Honorary positions Chair, A New Approach Reference Group 2021—; Chair, Board of Directors, Australian Music Centre, 2016–2021; Director, A New Approach, 2021—; Advisory Council, A New Approach, 2018–; Director, Four Winds Festival Foundation Board, 2018–2020; Advisory Council, The New Approach (Myer, Fairfax, Keir Foundations), 2018; Board of Directors, The New Approach 2021 -; International Jury Member, Classical:NEXT, 2017; Advisory Panel, UKARIA, 2015–2017; Peer Assessment Panel, Australia Council for the Arts, 2015–2020; Board of Directors, Australian Music Centre, 2013–2015; Advisory Panel, Black Arm Band, 2011–2015; Judging Panel, City of Melbourne Arts Grants, 2011–2020; Advisory Committee, Australian Music Centre, 2010–2012; Judging Panel, Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, 2008–2009; Board of Directors, Elision Ensemble, 2008–2015; Board of Directors, Astra Chamber Music Society, 2006–2012; Board of Directors, Australian Music Centre, 2006–2010; Judging Panel, Ian Potter Composer Fellowship Award, 2005–2007; Artistic Review Panel, Musica Viva Australia, 2004–2008; Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2002–2020.