Born in Australia and now based in the UK, Lisa Illean composes ‘music that seeps into your consciousness’ (ABC Classic FM). Reflective and compelling, her ‘exquisitely quiet shadows’ (The Sydney Morning Herald) invite contemplation, often exploring unconventional tunings and the phenomena that arise through the interaction of quiet layers. Illean has written widely across orchestral and chamber music, including An acre ringing, still — a ‘fascinating’ twenty-minute work for orchestra and electronics commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra — and Tiding for electric guitar. She has maintained strong connections with her birth country, with commissions from Finding Our Voice/Ukaria Cultural Centre and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as well as projects with Adelaide and Melbourne Symphony orchestras, and the Australian National Academy of Music. Her works have also been commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain, Radio France’s Festival Présences, Donaueschinger Musiktage/Experimental Studio des SWR, London Sinfonietta and the BBC Proms. In recent years she has oriented her practice as a composer to include making long-form pieces with both performed and pre-recorded material, in close development with one or two others. Her music is published by Faber Music, and her debut portrait album arcing, stilling, bending, gathering — described as ‘extraordinary stuff’ (The Arts Desk)— has been released on NMC recordings.