Called “a brilliant musical scientist” (CBC), “breathtakingly inventive” (Sydney Times Herald), and “utterly inspiring” (I Care If You Listen), multi award-winning composer and filmmaker Nicole Lizée explores themes of malfunction, glitch, turntablism, rave culture, urbex, film theory, psychedelia, game culture, experimental fashion, and thrash metal to create a new kind of expression.

Nicole’s works are regularly performed worldwide to international acclaim. Her commission list of over 60 works includes the Kronos Quartet, BBC Proms, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Bang on a Can, Ligeti Quartet, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Tapestry Opera, and Sō Percussion.

Awards include the 2024 Juno for Classical Composition of the Year, the 2023 Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera, a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Opera, a Prix Opus for Composer of the Year, a SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek Award, and the Canada Council Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.

She is a Lucas Artists Fellow (California) and a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow (Italy) and was selected by composer Howard Shore to be his protégée as part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.