Liza Lim

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Liza Lim (born August 30, 1966 in Perth ) is an Australian composer .

Life

Liza Lim was born to Chinese ancestors in Perth, Australia and grew up in Brunei . She studied philosophy in Queensland and composition with Riccardo Formosa in Melbourne and with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam.

Their way of composing is characterized by the combination of various cultural influences. She combines the aesthetics of contemporary occidental music with Chinese, Japanese and Korean influences and the soundscape of the Australian natives.

Liza Lim wrote commissioned compositions for the Arditti Quartet , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg , the Sydney Symphony Orchestra , the Ensemble intercontemporain , Ensemble Modern and the ensemble für neue musik zurich . For the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry in Los Angeles, she composed the orchestral work Ecstatic Architecture for the Los Angeles Philharmonic . Other works by Liza Lim were premiered at the Salzburg Festival , the Lucerne Festival and MaerzMusik . As a guest of the Berlin artist program of the DAAD , she wrote her third opera The Navigator in 2007 and 2008 , which premiered in Melbourne in 2008. Performances in Brisbane, Adelaide, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, Zurich and Berlin followed.

Liza Lim is Professor of Composition at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. Before that, she taught in Darmstadt, at the University of California San Diego & Berkeley, Cornell University , the University of Melbourne and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Awards and grants

  • Paul Lowin Prize
  • Fromm Foundation Award
  • Ian Potter Foundation
  • Australia Council Senior Composer Fellowships
  • Guest of the Berlin DAAD artist program

Compositions (selection)

Stage works

  • The Navigator (2008)
  • Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting) (1997-99)
  • The Oresteia (1991-93)

Orchestral works

  • The Guest (2010) for orchestra and solo recorder
  • Pearl, Ocher, Hair String (2010) for large orchestra
  • The Compass (2005-06) for large orchestra, solo flute and didgeridoo
  • Ecstatic Architecture (2001–02) for large orchestra
  • Immer fluent (2004) for large orchestra

Ensemble works

  • Winding Bodies: 3 Knots (2014)
  • Tongue of the Invisible (2010–11) for improvising pianist, baritone and 16 musicians. Text: Jonathan Holmes (based on poems by the Sufi poet Hafiz )
  • City of Falling Angels (2007)
  • Mother Tongue (2005) for soprano and 15 instruments
  • Li Shang yin (1993) for coloratura soprano and 15 instruments

Chamber music

  • The Weaver's Knot (2013) for string quartet
  • Ochred String (2007) for oboe, 2 violas and cello
  • In the Shadow's Light (2004) for string quartet
  • Ming Qi (Bright Vessel) (2000) for oboe and percussion
  • Burning House (1995) for koto and voice

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Liza Lim ( Memento from August 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on daad.de
  2. ↑ a b Liza Lim ( memento from June 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at the SWR Donaueschinger Musiktage
  3. ↑ a b stadt-koeln.de. Retrieved June 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Liza Lim ( memento from June 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Darmstadt Summer Courses
  5. ↑ Alex Ross : Singing In Tongues. Two Song Cycles by Liza Lim. In: The New Yorker . April 28, 2014, accessed December 6, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lim, Liza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth