Lisa Streich
Lisa Streich (1985, Norra Råda, Sweden) studied composition and organ in Berlin, Stockholm, Salzburg, Paris, and Cologne. She is currently a scholarship recipient at Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) Oslo. Streich has received commissions from several prestigious institutions, including the Lucerne Festival, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Diotima Quartet, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Shizuoka Concert Hall. She has notably collaborated with Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert, and Matthias Pintscher. She has also composed music for theater, notably for the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival on the themes of the seven senses of man, as well as a closing scene for Hans Werner Henze’s Das Wundertheater at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Among the distinctions she has received are the Busoni Composition Prize from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Fellowship, and the Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize. In 2020, she became the first laureate of the Claussen-Simon Composition Prize, and in 2021, she received the Lilla Christ Johnson Composition Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Portraits of her work were published on CD in 2018 by WERGO and in 2019 by KAIROS. She has held seminars on her music, notably at the Royal College of Music (Stockholm), Columbia University (New York), the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), and the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR, Paris). In 2024, she served as a composer-in-residence with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival. Her works are published by Ricordi Berlin.
