Lisa Streich
“For me it was always a dream to write for dance – an art in which body and music embrace or even love each other in the best case,” confesses composer Lisa Streich. Commissioned by the Vienna State Ballet, she has now composed her first dance score for Louis Stiens’s choreography High. The world premiere on 14 June 2025 will be part of the program Kreationen at the Vienna Volksoper.
Lisa Streich, born in 1985 in Norra Råda and now living on the Swedish island of Gotland, studied composition and organ in Berlin, Stockholm, Salzburg, Paris, and Cologne with Johannes Schöllhorn, Adriana Hölszky, Mauro Lanza and Margareta Hürholz, among others. Masterclasses with Chaya Czernowin, Steven Takasugi and Beat Furrer round off her training. Furthermore, she was scholarship holder at the NMH Oslo with Helmut Lachenmann as her mentor.
Lisa Streich has received commissions from the Lucerne Festival, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kölner Philharmonie, Swedish Radio Choir, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble intercontemporain, Hanover State Opera, Munich Chamber Orchestra and Shizuoka Concert Hall. Her music has been performed by ensembles such as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Norrköping and Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Quatuor Diotima, ensemble recherche, Eric Ericsson Chamber Choir, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Montréal, Ensemble Musikfabrik and many others. He has created music theatre works for the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival on the “Seven Senses of Man” and a final scene for Henze’s Wundertheater for the Bavarian State Opera.
Among the numerous prizes and scholarships Lisa Streich has been honoured with are the Cité des Arts Paris Prize, the Anne-Sophie Mutter Fonds, the Busoni Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship, the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo, the Roche Young Commission of the Lucerne Festival and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. A portrait of Lisa Streich has been published by the label WERGO/Edition contemporary Music.