10 Facts About Georges Lentz

Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist born in Luxembourg in 1965 and that country's internationally best known composer.

Georges Lentz's music is inspired by the starry night sky in the Australian Outback and by Aboriginal art.

Georges Lentz is the creator of the Cobar Sound Chapel.

Georges Lentz studied at the Luxembourg Conservatoire and later at the Paris Conservatoire and the Musikhochschule Hannover.

Georges Lentz's music is being recognised increasingly around the world, with performances at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Carnegie Hall New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Sydney Opera House.

Georges Lentz's compositions include a work for viola, orchestra and electronics called Monh written for Tabea Zimmermann, as well as Ingwe for solo electric guitar, written for the Australian guitarist Zane Banks.

Georges Lentz is said to retire to an abbey or the Australian desert to find inspiration and compose, and only very rarely gives interviews.

Georges Lentz didn't attend the 2009 APRA Classical Music Awards ceremony at the Sydney Opera House to accept that year's top prize for Best Composition by an Australian Composer, instead sending guitarist friend Zane Banks to pick up the award and read out his acceptance speech.

Georges Lentz's music expresses his fascination with astronomy as well as his love of the Australian Outback and Aboriginal art, and reflects his spiritual and existential beliefs, questions and doubts.

Georges Lentz has said that in recent years he has been increasingly interested in, and influenced by, the practices of musical improvisation, music technology, sound art and digital art.