įrom December 2015, Lior played the part of Motel Kamzoil in Fiddler on the Roof at Melbourne's Princess Theatre. In June 2015, Autumn Flow was re-released as a tenth anniversary edition. In April 2015, Lior was invited as the sole Australian artist to perform at the prestigious 100 year anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli, performing his song "Safety of Distance" with the Gallipoli choir leading in to the dawn service. The album peaked at number 23 on the ARIA charts. In March 2014, Lior released his fourth studio album Scattered Reflections. Lior premiered Compassion in the US with the Austin Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and was subsequently awarded the Austin Table Critics' Award for Best Symphonic Performance of 2015-16 and in 2016 Lior also won the Melbourne Music Prize Civic Choice Award for Compassion. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2014, it won the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album. The performance was recorded and the album of Compassion was released in November 2013. Compassion is an orchestral song cycle for voice and orchestra consisting of original melodies and orchestration set to ancient texts in Hebrew and Arabic, all centred around the wisdom of compassion. In September 2013, Lior and Nigel Westlake premiered Compassion at the Sydney Opera House.
Main articles: Compassion (Nigel Westlake, Lior and Sydney Symphony Orchestra album) and Scattered Reflections 2013-2018: Compassion, Scattered Reflections & Between You and Me At the APRA Music Awards of 2012, the song won the APRA Award for Best Original Song Composed for Screen. In 2011 Lior wrote and recorded "Hey Hootabelle" for Giggle and Hoot. The album peaked at number 26 on the ARIA charts. In October 2010, Lior released his third studio album Tumbling into the Dawn. The song plays nightly on ABC 2 just before 7:00pm, and marks the end of children's programming on the channel for the day. He agreed thinking "this could be fun" and wrote "Hoot's Lullaby".
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In 2009, Lior was approached by children's television show Giggle and Hoot series producer Clare Gerber, and was asked to write a song. In 2009, Lior launched the Shadows and Light Tour, a collaboration with renowned shadow artists Stephen Mushin and Anna Parry an interactive performance combining Lior's music with live shadow art performance and featured a season at the Sydney Opera House. In early 2009, he performed with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for a series of outdoor concerts. In 2008, Lior toured extensively, both in his home country of Australia and abroad including feature performances at the Edinburgh Festival. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2008, the album was nominated for the Best Independent Release. The album debuted at number 13 on the ARIA charts. In February 2008, Lior released his second studio album, Corner of an Endless Road. Main articles: Corner of an Endless Road and Tumbling into the Dawn 2008-2012: Corner of an Endless Road, Tumbling into the Dawn and Giggle and Hoot Lior moved from Sydney to Melbourne in 2007. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, the album was nominated for two awards Best Independent Release and Best Blues and Roots Album.
The album consisted mostly of tracks from Autumn Flow as well as some new material such as "Diego and the Village Girl", "Burying Chances" and "Avinu Malkeinu" (a traditional prayer). In February 2006, Lior released a live album, Doorways of My Mind, recorded at the Northcote Social Club. Autumn Flow was certified gold by ARIA in 2006. In 2005, the album was one of the fifteen nominees for radio station triple j's inaugural J Award, given to "an album of outstanding achievement as an Australian musical work of art – for its creativity, innovation, musicianship and contribution to Australian music.
Īt ARIA Music Awards of 2005, the album was nominated for three awards Breakthrough Artist, Best Male Artist, and Best Independent Release. Lior also performed at the Spiegeltent throughout the world, and the Make Poverty History concerts in Australia. Lior has toured with the WOMAD festival in 2005 to the UK, Singapore and Korea. I was feeling really defeated and quite sorry for myself, going 'how am I going to do this', and the song ("This Old Love") came on." Autumn Flow made its ARIA chart debut in early 2005, peaking at number 45. I went up and down the east coast with a band and lost all my money. In 2015, Lior recalled the first time he heard a song of his on the radio station, Triple J "I'd just done the so-called tour to launch the album but it didn't have any sort of exposure or radio play, so no-one really knew what it was. He sent it to a number of record labels but failed to secure a deal, and released the album independently, late in 2004. In October 2004, Lior recorded his debut studio album Autumn Flow. In 2000, Lior released his debut extended play The Soul Suicide EP. Main articles: Autumn Flow and Doorways of My Mind