Events

2019

5 Oct 2019, Axis Mundi (2015), Rebekah Heller, Wellesley College, USA

15 Oct 2019, Axis Mundi (2013), James Aylward, Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theatre, Berlin

25 Oct 2019, The Turning dance of the bee (2016), Divertimento Ensemble cond. Sandro Gorli, Espacio Turina, Seville.

25 Oct 2019, Ochred String (2008), Ben Opie with Arcko Ensemble, Melbourne

25 Oct 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Biliana Voutchkova, violin, MONA, Hobart

1 Nov 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Biliana Voutchkova, violin, Tokyo

1 Nov 2019, Wild Winged One (2017), Anders Nyqvist, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

2 Nov 2019, An ocean beyond earth (2016), Séverine Ballon, Hudební současnost festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic

4 Nov 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Biliana Voutchkova, violin, Crossing Boundary X, Nagoya

5 Nov 2019, An ocean beyond earth (2016), Séverine Ballon, Janáček Academy Brno, Czech Republic

6 Nov 2019, An ocean beyond earth (2016), Séverine Ballon, Olomouc, Czech Republic

14 Nov 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Biliana Voutchkova, violin, Taishin Bank Building, Taipei

15 Nov 2019, An ocean beyond earth (2016), Séverine Ballon, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds University

7 Dec 2019, Ehwaz (journeying), (2010), Tristram Williams, trumpet, Peter Neville, percussion. MCM Ian Potter Southbank, Melbourne

2020

16 Jan 2020, Atlas of the Sky (2018), Speak Percussion, Jessica Aszodi & crowd, Sydney Recital Hall, Sydney

14 Feb 2020, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018), Riot Ensemble cond. Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Kings Place London

22 March 2020, The Four Seasons – After Cy Twombly (2009), Roger Admiral, Now Hear This Festival, New Music Edmonton

March 2020, The turning dance of the bee (2016), Divertimento Ensemble cond. Sandro Gorli, Milan

23 March 2020, The turning dance of the bee (2016), Divertimento Ensemble cond. Sandro Gorli, Madrid

25 April 2020, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018), ELISION conducted. Carl Rosman, ISCM World Music Days, Auckland

2 May 2010, PREMIERE: The Incandescent Tongue (2019) & Athena’s Trumpet (1993)
Allison Bell (soprano) & Tristram Williams (trumpet), Melbourne Recital Centre

3 May 2020, PREMIERE: Sappho/ Bioluminescence (2019), part 1 of ‘Annunciation Triptych’ for orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra cond. Ilan Volkov, Glasgow

5 May 2020 (tbc), The Quickening (2005), Berlin

12-14 May 2020, PREMIERE: Sex Magic (2019-20), Claire Chase, contrabass flute, Levy Lorenzo, electronics, as part of the Density vii project, Queenslab, New York

21, 22 May 2020, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Miranda Cuckson, (as part of ‘Folds’) The Wallis Centre, Los Angeles

2 Oct 2020, PREMIERE: Mary/ Transcendence after Trauma (2019-20), part 2 of ‘Annunciation Triptych’ for orchestra, Munich

19 Dec 2020, PREMIERE, new work for Sigma Projects, saxophone quartet, Palais des Sciences Monastir, Tunisia

2021

June 2021, PREMIERE: String Quartet (2020-21), JACK Quartet

Oct 2021, PREMIERE: Fatimah/ Jubilation of Flowers (2020-21), part 3 of ‘Annunciation Triptych’ for orchestra, SWR Orchestra

2022

May 2022, PREMIERE of the complete Annunucation Triptych, WDR Sinfonie-Orchester conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

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PAST

17 Jan 2019, an ocean beyond earth (2016), Séverine Ballon, ‘cello, Ultraschall Festival, Berlin

29 Jan 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Jacobo Hernández Enríquez, Mumuth, Graz.

19 Feb 2019, an ocean beyond earth (2016), Séverine Ballon, ‘cello, Lauschvisite, Montabaur

19 Feb 2019, The Window (2017), Callum G’Froerer, The Brunswick Green

22 Feb 2019, Pharmakon (2018), Rage Thormbones, Frequency Festival, Constellation,  Chicago

4 March 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Sarah Soviet, violin, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield

5 March 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Sarah Soviet, violin, City University London

6 March 2019, The Green Lion eats the Sun (2014), Ben Marks, trombone, Nickson Room, University of Queensland

7 March 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Dejana Sekulic, violin, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield

15 March 2019, Ming Qi (Bright Vessel), 1999, Ben Opie, Thea Rossen, PlayOn Collingwood, Melbourne

19 March 2019: Broadcast of ‘Abschied von Menschen, die komponistin Liza Lim’
Composer Portrait on SWR Radio, produced by Martina Seeber (interview in English overdubbed in German) with excerpts of Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus, How Forests Think, Ronda – the Spinning World, Tongue of the Invisible, an ocean beyond earth, Roda – the living circle.

5 April 2019, Weaver of fictions (2007), Anna Petrini, Konserthuset Stockholm

8 April 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Sarah Saviet as part of Riot Ensemble CD launch party of ‘Speak, be Silent’, Crypt on the Green, Saint James Church, London

23 April 2019, The Green Lion eats the Sun (2014), Ben Marks, trombone, ELISION tour, Centre for  21stC New Music, University of Buffalo

28 April 2019, The Su Song Star Map (2017), Dejana Sekulic, violin, Temporality of the Impossible, ArtBase, Brussels

29 April 2019, The Green Lion eats the Sun (2014), Ben Marks, trombone, ELISION, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield

30 April 2019, The turning dance of the bee (2016), Ensemble Kuraia, Fundación BBVA, Bilbao

7 May 2019, The Quickening (2005), Lin He, guqin, Camilla Mandillo, soprano, Mendelssohn-Remise, Berlin

7 May 2019, Burning House (2005), Naoko Kikuchi, koto, Arvo Pärt Centre, ISCM World Music Days, Tallin, Estonia

17 May 2019, Inguz (fertility) (1996), Music in Bloom Festival, First Uniting Church, Bloomington, Indiana

18 & 19 May 2019, Voodoo Child (1989), cond. Kelly Corcoran, Spectrum OzArts, Nashville

29 May 2019, Invisibility (2009), Myriam García Fidalgo, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin

29 May 2019, PREMIERE: Bioluminescence (2018), Paula Rae, flute
Wild Winged One (2007), Callum G’Froerer, trumpet, Forum Taiwan

31 May 2019, How Forests Think (2016), Wu Wei, ELISION cond. Carl Rosman, National Concert Hall, Taipei

12 June; 21 June 2019, Axis Mundi (2014) Lorelei Dowling, street festival & village performance, Austria & Hungary

18 June 2019, Bioluminescence (2018), Paula Rae, flute, The Brunswick Green, Melbourne

23-30 June 2019, Faculty composer at Banff Summer Program
25 June 2019,  Inguz (Fertility) (1996), Josh Rubin, Katinka Kleijn; Ming Qi (Bright Vessel) (2000), James Austin Smith, Aiyun Huang, Rolston Recital Hall, Banff

29 June 2019, How Forests Think (2016) with Wu Wei, Ensemble Evolution cond. Steve Schick, Banff

27 June 2019, Talk: How Forests Think – making music in an ecological register
[Ecological perspectives have enabled me to think about composition as a way of populating musical spaces with ‘creatures’ rather than structural forms. These beings are made of unlikely hybrids: real assemblages of (human) musicians and (non-human) musical instruments as well as fictional composites of plants, animals, elements, spirits and all kinds of cultural ideas joined in speculative play. The symbiotic join might be across taxonomic categories – a sonic behaviour with a cultural/metaphorical idea, a technical challenge with a temporal or affective trace – the results are often unruly, fuzzy and hard to define using standard musicological terms. One has to shift to a weirder, fictional register of symbolic thought in order to appreciate these creatures – mundane and magical, haunted by real-world loss and unusual vitalities – they prompt questions about subjectivity, agency and authorship.]

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