LUCID DREAMING 1Tuesday 27 February 6pm, Salon

PRESENTED BYMelbourne Recital Centre

SPEAKERSGenevieve Lacey hostAlexis Wright writerLucy Guerin Artistic Director Lucy Guerin Inc Paul Kildea writer

ABOUT THE SPEAKERSAlexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is the author of the novel Carpentaria, which won five national literary awards in 2007, including the ASAL Gold Medal and the Miles Franklin Award. Her first novel Plains of Promise was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and published in France as Les Plaines de L'Espoir. Her other books are Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in Tennant Creek, the short story collection Le Pacte de Serpent, and as editor, Take Power, a collection of essays and stories celebrating 20 years of land rights in Central Australia. She has written widely on Indigenous rights, and organised two successful Indigenous Constitutional Conventions, ‘Today We Talk About Tomorrow’ (1993), and the Kalkaringi Convention (1998).

Lucy Guerin is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her work is described as post-modern. Lucy Guerin was born in Adelaide and began her dance education at local dance schools. She graduated from Adelaide's Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 and found employment in Sydney with Russell Dumas' Dance Exchange in 1983. In 1988 she took a position in Melbourne with Nanette Hassall's Dance Works company. She moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works.

In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Guerin has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (U.K. ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (U.S.A.), Lyon Opera Ballet (France) among many others. Her awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), numerous Green Room Awards, a Helpmann Award and two Australian Dance Awards (Structure & Sadness 2008, Motion Picture 2016). In 2016 she was

awarded the Australia Council Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance.

Paul Kildea is an Australian conductor and author, considered an expert on Benjamin Britten. He was born and raised in Narrabundah, Canberra and attended St Edmund's College, where his piano teacher was Keith Radford. He studied piano and musicology at the University of Melbourne, where he met the musicologist Malcolm Gillies. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is dedicated 'For two teachers, Malcolm and Keith', a nod to Gillies and Radford. He also gained a doctorate from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis was published as Selling Britten (2002). He was associated with Opera Australia, becoming assistant conductor to Simone Young after his 1997 conducting debut with Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. Kildea was head of music for the Aldeburgh Festival 1999–2002, and Artistic Director of Wigmore Hall 2003–05. In 2014 he was appointed Director of the biennial Four Winds Festival on the New South Wales South Coast. He resides in Berlin, Germany.

Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso, serial collaborator and artistic director with a significant recording catalogue and a career as an international soloist. She’s commissioned and premiered works by a diverse selection of composers. Genevieve also creates large-scale collaborative projects, recent examples including Pleasure Garden, one-infinity, Life in Music and Namatjira. Her wide-ranging musical interests have seen her playing for the Queen in Westminster Abbey, representing Australian culture with a performance at the Lindau International Convention of Nobel Laureates, playing as a concerto soloist in the BBC Proms, making music in a prison in remote Western Australia, and at the opening night of the London Jazz Festival. Her repertoire spans 10 centuries and collaborators include filmmakers, orchestras, playwrights, singer-song-writers and other esteemed artists. Genevieve has won two ARIAs, a Helpmann Award, Australia Council, Freedman and Churchill Fellowships and Outstanding Musician, Melbourne Prize for Music. She holds degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from universities in Melbourne, Switzerland and Denmark.

In 2018, Genevieve is Artist-in-Residence at Melbourne Recital Centre, she takes on anew role as Artistic Advisor to UKARIA, and continues as Chair of the Australian Music Centre board, and inaugural Artistic Director of FutureMakers, Musica Viva Australia’s artist leadership program.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this concert is being presented.

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