Nicole Lizée

Nicole Lizée (born April 7, 1973) is an award-winning Canadian composer of contemporary music.

She was born in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan and received a MMus from McGill University. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.^[1] At one time, she was a member of The Besnard Lakes, an indie rock band from Montreal.^[2]

Lizée has been described as a "brilliant musical scientist". She takes her inspiration from various sources including early MTV videos, rave culture, films by Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick and 1960s psychedelia. She has composed pieces for the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gryphon Trio, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Australian Art Orchestra, So Percussion and Eve Egoyan. Her music has been performed at international venues including Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam and the Cité de la Musique in Paris.^[3][1]

In 2013, she was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music and, in 2017, she received the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada's Jan. V. Matejcek Award for new classical music. Lizée is a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. In 2016, she received a Lucas Artists Fellowship Award. Her composition This Will Not Be Televised placed in the International Rostrum of Composers' Top 10 Works in 2008. Her Hitchcock Études was featured at 2014 Music Days in Poland. She was nominated for a Juno Award in 2016 and a Prix Opus in 2013. She received the Robert Fleming Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2002. She was named composer in residence for Vancouver's Music on Main festival from 2016 to 2018. She also received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for opera.^[3][1]

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