Liza Lim is an Australian composer, educator, and leader in the contemporary music community. Influenced by Asian ritual, Aboriginal art, and non-western languages, she has composed several operas and a large number of chamber and orchestral works. She was born in Perth in 1966 and her parents were Chinese; both worked as doctors. She spent her childhood in Brunei, where her parents were employed. They were occupied with demanding work schedules, and Lim and her two sisters were sent to a boarding school, where they had piano and violin instruction. Later they returned to Aust...