Liza Lim honored with Grawemeyer Award
The Australian composer Liza Lim, whose work will be performed at the Lucerne Festival as part of the Roche Commissions 2026, has been awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Award.
Born in Perth, Australia, in 1966, Liza Lim is Professor of Composition and holds the first Sculthorpe Chair in Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she also directs the Composing Women program. She has received commissions from some of the world's leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet and Klangforum Wien. Lim last appeared at the Lucerne Festival in November 2023 with the world premiere of her work Multispecies Knots of Ethical Timea composition for 15 musicians, gestural performers and video.
The Grawemeyer Awards, currently endowed with 100,000 dollars, are presented once a year by the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Winners are nominated in the categories of education and teaching, ideas that improve the world order, music composition, religion and psychology. In 2015, one award went to Wolfgang Rihm, then director of the Lucerne Festival Academy.
