Lisa Streich was born in Norra Råda, Sweden and currently lives in Gotland, Sweden. She studied composition and organ in Berlin, Stockholm, Salzburg, Paris, and Cologne. She is currently a scholarship recipient at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) in Oslo. Streich has received commissions from the Lucerne Festival, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Diotima Quartet, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and the Shizuoka Concert Hall, and has collaborated with Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert, and Matthias Pintscher. She has also composed music for theater, notably for the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival, as well as a closing scene for Hanz Verner Henze’s Das Wundertheater at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.
Streich's awards include the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the orchestra prize from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, the Busoni Composition Prize from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Fellowship, the Rome Prize from Villa Massimo, the Roche Young Commission at the Lucerne Festival, and the Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize. In 2020, she became the first laureate of the Claussen-Simon Composition Prize, and in 2021, she received the Lilla Christ Johnson Composition Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music for her work Augenlider, and in 2022 she received the Heidelberg Women Artists’ Prize.
Streich has held seminars on her music, notably at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Columbia University in New York, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the CRR in Paris. In 2024, she was a composer-in-residence with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival. Portraits of her work were released on CD by WERGO Zeitgenössische Musik in 2018 and by KAIROS in 2019. Her works are published by RICORDI Berlin.
