Georges Lentz

Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best-known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia. Despite his relatively small output and his reclusiveness, he is also considered one of Australia's leading composers. He spends part of each year at his secondary residence in Berlin. In 2019, a new sound art project, the Cobar Sound Chapel, will be built in Cobar in Outback New South Wales. It will be a purpose-built venue to permanently house the 4-channel projection of Georges Lentz's digital string quartet, the 369-minute composition String Quartet(s) (2000-2019), as well as the venue for a new annual String Quartet Festival Weekend. The Cobar Sound Chapel will be designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt in collaboration with the composer (2016-2019), with its architecture reflecting rhythmic and structural patterns found in String Quartet(s).