Lisa Bielawa

[24] Major compositions include: Bielawa received a 2018 Los Angeles Area Emmy nomination [25] for her made-for-TV-and-online opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser, created with librettist Erik Ehn and director Charles Otte.

Its mission was to stimulate voter engagement, political awareness, and community participation in challenging lockdown conditions, through the act of giving voice to the concerns of fellow citizens, during the lead-up to the 2020 Presidential election.

[30] Brickyard Broadcast Brickyard Broadcast is a spatialized work for hundreds of musicians commissioned by North Carolina State University that had its world premiere in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment designed by the digital media teams at the NC State University Libraries in November 2020.

Chance Encounter has been recorded by The Knights and Susan Narucki for Orange Mountain Music (December 2010), and has been performed in Venice with Lisa Bielawa as the soprano soloist as part of the 12th International Venice Biennale of Architecture, in partnership with urban placemaker Robert Hammond, known for championing New York's High Line.

[32] Writing for The Boston Globe, David Weininger notes that her Hypermelodia (for chamber orchestra, big band, and jazz quartet) is structured like a hypertext novel: during the piece two of the performers choose which section to play next.

[33] It was commissioned for and premiered at the 37th Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young on April 12, 2015, at the Rivers School Conservatory.

Bielawa after the premiere of her Voters' Litany at the Washington National Cathedral , March 2022