| Genevieve Lacey is
a young Australian recorder player with a substantial career underway on
two sides of the globe. Already this year, she has toured Australia as
soloist with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, recorded live and studio
concerts for ABC radio and television, played a season as soloist
with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and recorded two solo CDs with ABC
Classics (the first with organist/harpsichordist Linda Kent, the second,
a Vivaldi pasticcio she created for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's
first national tour). Later this year she will be a guest soloist in Richard
Tognettí's exclusive Huntington Festival.
Engagements for 2001 include two more recordings with ABC Classics (a medieval programme with the Danish pipe and tabor player Poul Høxbro and a baroque programme with the violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch), a European tour as soloist with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Andreas Scholl, and concerts in Denmark with Poul Høxbro. Genevieve has recently been appointed the new artistic director of the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival and is currently completing a doctorate from the University of Melbourne. As the most outstanding graduate from Melbourne University Conservatorium in 1994, Genevieve was awarded the University's prestigious Welsford Smithers Travelling Scholarship. This, on top of a Queenís Trust Grant and first prize in the Second Australian Recorder Competition took her to Europe for a year's intensive study of medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), and then a further two years at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (Odense, Denmark). The two years in Denmark were a time of rigorous study of her instrument, the recorder, with lessons from the renowned recorder virtuoso, Dan Laurin. Genevieve graduated from her performance diploma with a perfect score. |