Lisa Streich

Lisa Streich is composer-in-residence this summer at Lucerne Festival, where she was first introduced in 2017 by her orchestral piece Segel as part of the “Roche Young Commissions” series. Born in 1985 in Norra Råda, Sweden, she studied composition and organ in Berlin, Stockholm, Salzburg, Paris, and Cologne with Johannes Schöllhorn, Adriana Hölszky, Mauro Lanza, and Margareta Hürholz, among others. She has participated in master classes with such figures as Chaya Czernowin, Steven Takasugi, Hanspeter Kyburz, and Beat Furrer. She was a scholarship recipient until 2023 at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where Helmut Lachenmann was her mentor. Streich has received commissions from such renowned institutions as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Choir, Ensemble intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and the Shizuoka Concert Hall and has collaborated with such conductors as Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert, and Matthias Pintscher. Her wide-ranging oeuvre encompasses solo to orchestral pieces and vocal music to music for theater, including a work on the theme of the seven senses for the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival as well as a closing scene for Hans Werner Henze’s one-act opera Das Wundertheater commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper. She prefers to use self-developed, motorized instruments. Streich has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Busoni Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, a Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship, the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo, the Heidelberg Women Artists’ Prize, and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Prize. In 2024, she received the Hindemith Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Her works are published by Ricordi Berlin. The labels Wergo and Kairos released portraits of her work on CD in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Lisa Streich has given presentations on her music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Columbia University in New York, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, among others. She lives on the Swedish island of Gotland.

Juli 2024