Nicole Lizée

Nicole Lizée (born 7 April 1973) is a Canadian composer of contemporary music. She was born in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan and received a MMus from McGill University. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. She was a member of Montreal indie rock band The Besnard Lakes. Career Lizée has been described as a “brilliant musical scientist.” She takes her inspiration from various sources including early MTV videos, rave culture, films by Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, and 1960s psychedelia. She has composed pieces for the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gryphon Trio, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Australian Art Orchestra, So Percussion and Eve Egoyan. Her music has been performed at international venues including Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, and the Cité de la Musique. In 2024, she received a Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for Don’t Throw Your Head in Your Hands. Discography Solo studio albums * This Will Not Be Televised (2008), Centrediscs * Bookburners (2014), Centrediscs Collaborative albums * Gr