Musician and arts advocate Genevieve Lacey creates, performs and curates. Her work can be experienced in museums, concert halls, parks and gardens, festivals and the digital realm. She’s been touring inter/nationally for decades, has a substantial recording catalogue, and an ABC film Recorder Queen has been made about her life.
As a recorder virtuoso, Genevieve’s performed at the Lindau International Convention of Nobel Laureates, as concerto soloist in the Royal Albert Hall for BBC Proms, at London Jazz Festival and on Thursday Island with Australian indigenous ensemble The Black Arm Band. Her own creative works include Breathing Space (a permanent sound installation at the National Museum of Australia), Soliloquy (a communal re-invention of the solo recital), Pleasure Garden (a listening garden).
Genevieve curates Utzon Music for Sydney Opera House. She’s been artistic director for Finding Our Voice, artistic advisor to UKARIA, director of Musica Viva’s FutureMakers and 2018 artist-in-residence at the Melbourne Recital Centre. She’s on the board of A New Approach, former Chair of the Australian Music Centre.
She’s won ARIAs, Helpmanns, Green Rooms, Churchill, Freedman, Australia Council Fellowships, Melbourne Prize for Music (Outstanding Musician Award), Sidney Myer Individual Performing Arts Award. In 2024 Breathing Space won Work of the Year (Electroacoustic/Sound Art) at the ARPA Art Music Awards and Genevieve was named National Luminary.
Photo credit: Keith Saunders
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