Genevieve Lacey

The Australian recorder virtuosa Genevieve Lacy has become one of the few Australian players of her instrument to achieve international stature, commissioning works from composers worldwide while notching a strong record of recordings, collaborations, solo performances, and artistic directorships at home. Lacey was born in 1972 in Papua New Guinea. She took up the recorder at age five. In 1980 her family moved to Melbourne and then to the inland city of Ballarat, where she took piano and oboe lessons, as well as studying recorder. Her university training on recorder took plac...