Lucy has performed as a soloist in many of London's most prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and St John's Smith Square. She is a core member of EXAUDI vocal ensemble, with whom she performs both Renaissance music and works by living composers. She is ideally suited to zwischenfach operatic roles, and enjoys performing Mozart opera in particular. She also loves performing with early music consorts, and in recent years has enjoyed performing with the Dunedin Consort, Freiburger Barockorchester, English Concert, Solomon’s Knot and the Academy of Ancient Music. Lucy is also a regular member of London Voices, singing for film soundtracks and in other projects.
Staged work includes Hänsel in Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Annio La Clemenza di Tito, Dorabella Così fan tutte, Meg Page Falstaff, and chorus in Purcell Fairy Queen and King Arthur with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican. Contemporary opera appearances include the premiere of Laura Bowler GOLD with Riot Ensemble, Errolyn Wallen Dido's Ghost with the Dunedin Consort at the Barbican and Buxton Festival, Thomas Larcher The Hunting Gun in the Aldeburgh Festival, Pascal Dusapin Passion with Music Theatre Wales, Triptych with ERRATICA at the Print Room, Notting Hill, and David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion with Cryptic Theatre at King's Place.
Lucy regularly collaborates with pianist Siwan Rhys. In 2017-2018 Lucy and Siwan undertook the American Songbook project, including new commissions A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women Laura Bowler (nominated for a British Composer Award) and Universal Food Machine by Canadian composer Christopher Mayo, a 9-day American Songbook residency at Snape Maltings, followed by performances in Brunel Tunnel Shaft, City and Durham Universities, International Anthony Burgess Foundation and in Brighton (supported by Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, Snape Maltings, Hinrichsen Foundation and RVW Trust). In June 2022 Lucy and Siwan premiered Plain Air, a new hour long work by James Weeks based on texts by Nan Shepherd at the Musicon Festival in Durham in 2022. The duo is looking forward to performing An American Songbook II at Southampton University in January 2023. Plans are also afoot for 3 new commissions in 2023, as well as repeat performances of American Songbook II and Plain Air.
As a high mezzo, Lucy frequently performs the second soprano solos in Mozart Mass in C Minor, most recently at the St Endellion Festival. Other memorable concert performances include Monteverdi Vespers (solos&chorus) with the Academy of Ancient Music, a Chromatic Renaissance with EXAUDI at the Wigmore Hall, and a recital of music by female composers with soprano Héloïse Werner and harpist Anne Denholm for Spitalfields Music. In May 2018 Michael Finnissy wrote a reworking of the Recordare from the Mozart Requiem for Lucy to premiere with him at his retirement from Southampton University at the Turner Sims Concert Hall. In August 2019 Lucy sang in Berio Sinfonia with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.
Lucy enjoys a dual career as both a singer and conductor. This year she is working as Assistant Conductor to Ben Parry at London Voices. She has recently conducted recording sessions at Abbey Road and Angel Studios for labels EMI and Decca, and for a major Hollywood film company. In August 2022 Lucy was course conductor for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain Girls' Choir course at Framlingham, alongside her teacher and mentor Joanna Tomlinson. Since January 2019 Lucy has been Music Director of the Orlando Chamber Choir, an excellent amateur chamber choir specializing in Renaissance and Baroque music. Lucy founded Concordium String Ensemble in 2018. The group's most recent concert included Grieg Holberg Suite and Bach cantata BWV 170 (sung by alto Charlie Morris) on 4th March 2022 in the Music By The Bridge series at All Saints Fulham. In January 2020 Lucy conducted recording sessions at Air Studios for the film The Green Knight. In 2018 she conducted Blaze chamber ensemble in a performance of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in London, and was chorus master for the SWAP'ra gala at Opera Holland Park.
Lucy is a committed singing teacher of both children and adults. She has taught at the Lady Eleanor Holles School since 2009. Whilst studying for her Masters in Vocal Performance at the Royal Academy of Music Lucy also completed her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (the Academy's teaching diploma). She takes a keen interest in vocal pedagogy and stays up to date with the latest research.
Lucy graduated with distinction for her Masters in Vocal Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in July 2011, where she was awarded the S and M Eyres Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. She previously read Modern Languages at Girton College, Cambridge, where she was a choral and instrumental scholar. She also played the violin in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and its Italian equivalent, L’Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, and spent a year studying at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy.
Besides singing Lucy loves playing violin in a string quartet and spending time in Italy. She also loves swimming outdoors, hiking, camping, reading, cycling and baking bread.
Staged work includes Hänsel in Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Annio La Clemenza di Tito, Dorabella Così fan tutte, Meg Page Falstaff, and chorus in Purcell Fairy Queen and King Arthur with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican. Contemporary opera appearances include the premiere of Laura Bowler GOLD with Riot Ensemble, Errolyn Wallen Dido's Ghost with the Dunedin Consort at the Barbican and Buxton Festival, Thomas Larcher The Hunting Gun in the Aldeburgh Festival, Pascal Dusapin Passion with Music Theatre Wales, Triptych with ERRATICA at the Print Room, Notting Hill, and David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion with Cryptic Theatre at King's Place.
Lucy regularly collaborates with pianist Siwan Rhys. In 2017-2018 Lucy and Siwan undertook the American Songbook project, including new commissions A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women Laura Bowler (nominated for a British Composer Award) and Universal Food Machine by Canadian composer Christopher Mayo, a 9-day American Songbook residency at Snape Maltings, followed by performances in Brunel Tunnel Shaft, City and Durham Universities, International Anthony Burgess Foundation and in Brighton (supported by Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, Snape Maltings, Hinrichsen Foundation and RVW Trust). In June 2022 Lucy and Siwan premiered Plain Air, a new hour long work by James Weeks based on texts by Nan Shepherd at the Musicon Festival in Durham in 2022. The duo is looking forward to performing An American Songbook II at Southampton University in January 2023. Plans are also afoot for 3 new commissions in 2023, as well as repeat performances of American Songbook II and Plain Air.
As a high mezzo, Lucy frequently performs the second soprano solos in Mozart Mass in C Minor, most recently at the St Endellion Festival. Other memorable concert performances include Monteverdi Vespers (solos&chorus) with the Academy of Ancient Music, a Chromatic Renaissance with EXAUDI at the Wigmore Hall, and a recital of music by female composers with soprano Héloïse Werner and harpist Anne Denholm for Spitalfields Music. In May 2018 Michael Finnissy wrote a reworking of the Recordare from the Mozart Requiem for Lucy to premiere with him at his retirement from Southampton University at the Turner Sims Concert Hall. In August 2019 Lucy sang in Berio Sinfonia with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.
Lucy enjoys a dual career as both a singer and conductor. This year she is working as Assistant Conductor to Ben Parry at London Voices. She has recently conducted recording sessions at Abbey Road and Angel Studios for labels EMI and Decca, and for a major Hollywood film company. In August 2022 Lucy was course conductor for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain Girls' Choir course at Framlingham, alongside her teacher and mentor Joanna Tomlinson. Since January 2019 Lucy has been Music Director of the Orlando Chamber Choir, an excellent amateur chamber choir specializing in Renaissance and Baroque music. Lucy founded Concordium String Ensemble in 2018. The group's most recent concert included Grieg Holberg Suite and Bach cantata BWV 170 (sung by alto Charlie Morris) on 4th March 2022 in the Music By The Bridge series at All Saints Fulham. In January 2020 Lucy conducted recording sessions at Air Studios for the film The Green Knight. In 2018 she conducted Blaze chamber ensemble in a performance of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in London, and was chorus master for the SWAP'ra gala at Opera Holland Park.
Lucy is a committed singing teacher of both children and adults. She has taught at the Lady Eleanor Holles School since 2009. Whilst studying for her Masters in Vocal Performance at the Royal Academy of Music Lucy also completed her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (the Academy's teaching diploma). She takes a keen interest in vocal pedagogy and stays up to date with the latest research.
Lucy graduated with distinction for her Masters in Vocal Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in July 2011, where she was awarded the S and M Eyres Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. She previously read Modern Languages at Girton College, Cambridge, where she was a choral and instrumental scholar. She also played the violin in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and its Italian equivalent, L’Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, and spent a year studying at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy.
Besides singing Lucy loves playing violin in a string quartet and spending time in Italy. She also loves swimming outdoors, hiking, camping, reading, cycling and baking bread.