Genoël von Lilienstern (b. 1979) is a Berlin-based composer whose practice spans instrumental composition, music-theatre and installation work. His output ranges from orchestral pieces featuring vintage synthesizers and full-length music-theatre to chamber and solo works, as well as installations built around robots and drones. Across these formats he investigates the links between audio-visual collage methods, the social dimensions of music and structural processes.

Over the years he has earned a wide range of prizes and grants, among them a Villa Aurora residency in Los Angeles (2017), a sound art and composition grant from the city of Berlin (2017), residencies at Herrenhaus Edenkoben (2014) and the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2014), the Gargonza Arts Award (20012), a UdK graduate school grant (2012-2014), Tokyo Wondersite (2011), a master stipend from the Ensemble Modern Akademie (2008/09), first prize at Ring.Award.off (2008), first prize in the Hanns Eisler competition (2008), an Academy of the Arts fellowship in Berlin (2006) and a stipend prize from the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2004).

Genoël von Liliensterns compositions have been performed internationally by ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, SWR Orchester Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Vocalsolisten, Ensemble Adapter and Mivos Quartett. Works commissioned received commissions for festivals such as Münchener Biennale, Ultraschall Festivals Berlin, Attacca Stuttgart, Musik der Jahrhunderte, Eclat-Festival Stuttgart, MARS-Festival L.A., Qubit Festival New York, Tokyo Experimental Festival und Avanti! Festival Helsinki. Furthermore his works have been performed in Cité de la Musique Paris, Casa de la Musica Quito, Matik Matik Bogota, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid and by interpreters such as Ian Pace, Ulrich Mertin, Israel Contemporary Players, Decibel Birmingham, Decoder Ensemble, Ensemble Zaffran, Ensemble Interface, Ensemble Garage, Lucilin Ensemble, Proxima Centauri, Ensemble SIC, Kupkas Piano and phoenix 16. His installations including robots and drones were shown in the Berliner Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and at Ring. Award Graz.

Genoël von Lilienstern studied composition with Younghi Pagh-Paan, Hanspeter Kyburz and Klarenz Barlow in Bremen, Berlin and The Hague. He also studied at the Ensemble Modern Academy and was a Fellow of the UdK graduate school. He was invited as a guest lecturer to Stanford University, California Institute of the Arts, Califonia State University Long Beach, to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and gave a masterclass at Novalis festival Zagreb. He was a lecturer for sound design at UdK Berlin and for site-specific composition at Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK).