Liesa Van der Aa

Liesa Van der Aa is a Belgian composer, violinist, singer and multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves music, image and performance into unified expressive forms. Known for her hybrid sonic worlds that blur genre boundaries, she works across film, experimental theatre and immersive live settings.

Her recent scores include New Beginnings (2025), a documentary by Vivianne Perelmuter and Isabelle Ingold that premiered in the Burning Lights competition at Visions du Réel, and Frontera (2025), a historical thriller by Judith Colell which had its international premiere at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). Liesa's earlier cinematic work includes collaborations on Gilles Coulier’s Cargo (Ensor Award – Best Soundtrack), Michalis Konstantatos’s All the Pretty Little Horses, and Baloji’s Augure (New Voice Award at Cannes 2023).

Her solo releases—Troops, WOTH, and Easy Alice—trace her ongoing exploration of voice, violin, loops and sound-design. Her upcoming 12-track album Caramel (28 November 2025) is her “most intimate and fearless work so far,” a warm yet sharp-edged record described by a friend as “a snail on a razorblade.” Built from chopped and reassembled vocals, synths, pianos and samples, Caramel pushes her sonic language into new terrain.

She also founded the contemporary music laboratory One Trick Pony, which investigates the visualisation of music and the role of musicians in theatre, film and site-specific work. Her interdisciplinary performance projects have been presented at major venues including deSingel, Toneelhuis, M HKA, Concertgebouw Brugge, and by ensembles such as Ictus (Brussels) and Kaleidoskop (Berlin).
Most recently, Liesa presented HUNTER at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin — an interdisciplinary composition and stage-piece that fuses a basketball-court ritual with ensemble vocal and electronic media, exploring the rules we play by and the hunt for humanity.
Liesa's work continues to push the boundaries between sound, image and performance.