Bower Genevieve Lacey & Marshall McGuire

• Lou Bennett (1926 - 1997):
• 1 Bennett: : Baiyan Woka (Arr. Erkki Veltheim) 05:55
• John Playford (1623 - 1686):
• 2 Playford: : Bravade (from “The Dancing Master”) [Arr. Lacey, McGuire, van Eyck] 05:10
• Andrea Keller (b. 1973):
• 3 Keller: : I Surrender 05:35
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695):
• 4 Purcell: : Evening Hymn (Arr. Lacey, McGuire) 04:09
• Lachlan Skipworth (b. 1982):
• 5 Skipworth: : Cavern 04:40
• John Rodgers (b. 1962)
• 6 Rodgers: : Birds for Genevieve 03:08
• Erkki Veltheim (b. 1976):
• 7 Veltheim: : A Tune for the Silvereye 02:33
• Anonymous:
• 8 Anonymous: : Greensleeves to a Ground 04:29
• Erkki Veltheim:
• 9 Veltheim: : Nocturne Over Blue Ruins 07:32
• Cipriano de Rore (1515 - 1565):
• 10 Rore: : Io canterei d’amor (Arr. Lacey, McGuire) 03:12
• Bree van Reyk (b. 1978):
• 11 van Reyk: : threaded in amongst the infinite threading 08:02
• Anonymous:
• 12 Anonymous: : O Virgo Splendens (Arr. Lacey, McGuire) 04:29
• Madeleine Flynn (1894 - 1967, Tim Humphrey:
• 13 Flynn, Humphrey: : A Mutual Support for Precarious Times 05:27
• Johann Jakob Froberger (1616 - 1667):
• 14 Froberger: : Lamentation faite sur la mort très douloureuse de Sa Majesté Impériale Ferdinand III (Arr. Marshall McGuire) 05:59
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644 - 1704):
• 15 Biber: : Passacaglia (Arr. John Rodgers) 07:47
• Total Runtime 01:18:07

Info for Bower

The incomparable Genevieve Lacey – performer, composer and creator of poetic, sensual worlds – joins with internationally acclaimed Australian harpist Marshall McGuire to explore the unique power of music to offer comfort and renewal.

“During this time of isolation, people the world round are yearning for shelter, both physical and spiritual. So I assembled a cast of people whose work I love, some of whom I’d never met and together, we set out to create a sense of shelter: a nest, woven with memories, heart, hope,” Lacey says.

The exquisite album artwork, created by Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison, reflects the beauty and richness of the musical soundscapes presented on this album: sublime new music by Lou Bennett, Andrea Keller, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, John Rodgers, Lachlan Skipworth, Bree van Reyk and Erkki Veltheim, side by side with musical treasures reaching back across six centuries.

Genevieve Lacey, recorder
Marshall McGuire, harp

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.

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