Genevieve Lacey & Marshall McGuire
Biography Genevieve Lacey & Marshall McGuire
Genevieve Lacey
creates and performs multi-artform works with found, devised and commissioned materials, combining her skills as performer, composer and curator. She creates poetic, sensual worlds experienced in a huge variety of contexts: public art, installation, film, theatre, dance, radio, TV and the digital realm.
Works include Pleasure Garden (kinetic sound installation experienced by 30,000+ people), Soliloquy (participatory music-dance ritual), Recorder Queen (semi-animated documentary film), and one infinity (participatory performance piece). Current collaborators include writer Alexis Wright, visual artist Amos Gebhardt, composer Erkki Veltheim and Antarctic scientist Steven Chown.
As a recorder virtuoso, Genevieve makes regular appearances as a soloist with Australian and international orchestras (Australian Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Tapiola Sinfonietta and Concerto Copenhagen, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Adelaide Symphony) and 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.
An advocate for her instrument as well as for contemporary composition, Genevieve has commissioned and premiered works by composers as wide-ranging as Australians Liza Lim, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brett Dean, Lou Bennett, Andrea Keller, Hollis Taylor, Paul Grabowsky, Ben Frost, as well as Erkki-Sven Tuur (Estonia), John Surman (UK), Max de Wardener (UK), Jan Bang (Norway), Christian Fennesz (Germany) and Nico Muhly (USA).
Genevieve is currently artistic director for Finding Our Voice and artistic advisor to UKARIA Cultural Centre. Her curatorial expertise has been sought out by Rising (2019-20), Adelaide Festival (2019), and Melbourne Recital Centre, where she was Artist in Residence (2018). With an extensive and ever-expanding discography, she has won Australian Recording Industry awards (ARIA), Helpmann and Green Room awards, Churchill, Freedman and Australia Council Fellowships, Melbourne Prize for Music and the Sidney Myer Individual Performing Arts Award.
Marshall McGuire
studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. His London debut recital was presented at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group. He has commissioned and premiered more than 100 new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide.
Marshall is founding President of the New Music Network, a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra Artistic Advisory Committee, a trustee of the Hephzibah Tintner Foundation and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers House, and was head of artistic planning with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2011.
Marshall is currently Co-Artistic Director of Ludovico’s Band and Director of Programming at Melbourne Recital Centre.
In 2018, Marshall was on the selection jury for Classical NEXT in Rotterdam, and was a member of the piano trio jury for the 'Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne' competition in Graz, Austria.
In 2019, he performs for Adelaide Festival, Peninsula Summer Music Festival, Woodend Winter Arts Festival, and with Ludovico’s Band and ELISION ensemble.
He has performed in caves, on the beach at Orpheus Island, at the Chateau de Chantilly, in shearing sheds, and in a 12th century chapel in Wales. Playing music in exotic and beautiful locations is his passion.
