Liza Lim

Liza Lim is a composer, educator and researcher whose music focusses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Beauty, rage & noise, ecological connection, and female spiritual lineages are at the heart of recent works. Her work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018) has found especially wide resonance internationally. Extensively commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and ensembles, Lim is Sculthorpe Chair of Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She is Guest Professor visiting Frankfurt HfMDK in 2024-25.

Recent awards include the OPUS KLASSIK 2024 Composer of the Year (Germany); the 13th Roche Commission to compose an orchestral work for the 2026 Lucerne Festival and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship (2025-2029). Lim’s catalogue ranges from solos and chamber music embedded in essential repertoire lists worldwide, to five strikingly different operas. Her music is published by Ricordi Berlin.