Roche Commission 2026 goes to Liza Lim
Australian Liza Lim receives the 13th Roche Commissions for 2026, each of which will be premiered at the Lucerne Festival.
Born in Perth, Australia, in 1966, Liza Lim last appeared at the Lucerne Festival in November 2023 with the world premiere of her work Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time present. She is Professor of Composition and holds the first Sculthorpe Chair in Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she also directs the Composing Women program.
Roche Commissions is a collaboration between Roche, the Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Since 2003, Roche has commissioned a new work by a contemporary composer every two years on the recommendation of the Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy. The aim of the commissions is to enable musical works that "go beyond the conventional and offer a source of intellectual stimulation and challenge".
