Lisa Bielawa is an award-winning composer, producer, and vocalist. A Guggenheim Fellow and Rome Prize winner, Bielawa has received honors from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, OPERA America, and American Antiquarian Society, and was nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy for her unprecedented, made-for-TV-and-online opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser.
Bielawa’s music has been premiered and presented worldwide by the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Rouen Opera, MAXXI Museum in Rome, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Radio France, Yerevan Concert Hall, Venice Architectural Biennale, American Music Week in Salzburg, INFANT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, and more.
From 2019–2022, Bielawa was the founding Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator of the Philip Glass Institute (PGI) at The New School’s College of the Performing Arts. In addition to performing as the vocalist in the Philip Glass Ensemble, Bielawa appears frequently in her own works and in music by composers such as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, and Michael Gordon. She recently made her orchestral conducting debut leading the Mannes String Orchestra in a special PGI presentation featuring her music, works by Jon Gibson and David T. Little, and Glass’s Symphony No. 3.
