Graduate Profile - Genevieve Lacey
"I am a freelance musician. I travel nationally and internationally playing concerts. I have also worked as the artistic director of a festival, I sit on boards, judging and advisory panels in the community. The degrees I did at the University of Melbourne intensified my thirst for ideas and knowledge, honed my reading, writing and communication skills, put me on a path to creative research projects, and gave me the precious luxury of years of practice on my instrument."
Genevieve Lacey is acclaimed as a recorder virtuoso. She performs repertoire spanning ten centuries, collaborating on projects as diverse as her medieval duo with Poul Høxbro and her contemporary role in Elision/John Rodgers'/Justine Cooper's video opera Tulp. She appears as concerto soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and multiple Symphony Australia Orchestras as well as working internationally as a solo recitalist. She has recorded multiple CDs including Il flauto dolce, her first release with ABC Classics, which won the 2001 ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award) for Best Classical Recording.
Engagements for 2006-07 include returns to European and Australian festivals, the recording of three new ABC Classics CDs, a national tour as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, an international tour as soloist with the English Concert, and multiple premieres and recordings of new works. Between 2001-3, Genevieve was the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival. She holds academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from the University of Melbourne (Australia), the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (Denmark). Genevieve served as judge on the most recent Ian Potter Composer Fellowships Awards, she is a Fellow of the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne and a director of the Astra and Australian Music Centre boards. She was awarded the inaugural Music Council of Australia Freedman Fellowship to assist an Australian artist of superb achievement in establishing an international career and has just been awarded a Churchill Fellowship.