Title: Shimmer Songs
Commission: 2004
Completed: 2006
Instrumentation: harp, three percussion, and string quartet
Premiere Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum in San Francisco
Premiere Ensemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Notes:

Liza Lim is an Australian composer whose music focusses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Ideas of beauty, ecological connection and ritual transformation are ongoing concerns in her compositional work. Her four operas: The Oresteia (1993), Moon Spirit Feasting (2000), The Navigator (2007) and Tree of Codes (2016), and the major ensemble work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018) explore themes of desire, memory, and the uncanny. Widely commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and ensembles, Lim is Sculthorpe Chair of Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her music is published by Casa Ricordi Berlin.