Education
Guildhall School of Music and Drama – PGDip Orchestral Training (1995 – 1996)
Edinburgh University – BMus (Hons) 2:1 (1991 – 1995)
About
Plays the double bass and bass guitar.
In the studio, she records music for film soundtracks, TV and pop bands.
Recent projects include working with Charlie XCX, the soundtrack for KPOP Demon Hunters and both orchestral double bass and rhythm bass on Paddington in Peru.
Lucy also collaborates with the Royal Opera House, the Britten Sinfonia and the English Chamber Orchestra.
With the bass guitar, she’s toured internationally, appeared on festival stages like Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage with Squeeze and on TV and radio.
She’s also been a guest on the radio show “Add to Playlist” and was a member of the ground-breaking theatre music company The Gogmagogs.
Lucy has composed music and written arrangements for pop bands and theatre.
As an educator, she’s worked with the Royal Academy of Music Open Academy, Wigmore Hall Learning, Trinity Laban and has been a guest professor at the RCM.
She’s a visiting professor of the bass at the University of St George, City of London, for the Music Performance and Production course.
Lucy also teaches at Cym (Centre for Young Musicians) and LSSO (London Schools Symphony Orchestra).
Orchestral
Britten Sinfonia (inc. Principal)
London Mozart Players (inc. Principal)
Royal Opera House
City of London Sinfonia
Academy of St Martins
BBC Concert Orchestra
English Chamber Orch
English National Opera (trial for sub principal)
The Halle (trial for rank and file)
Scottish Opera
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Chamber
Wigmore Hall concert with Stephen Isserlis 2023
Prussia Cove Chamber music 2022
Tête à Tête – inc ENO Chamber Opera Project
Wigmore Hall Creative Ensemble
Hofesh Schecter Dance Company
Clod Ensemble
Composers Ensemble
Continuum Ensemble
Gogmagogs Music Theatre Group
Commercial Sessions
Isobel Griffiths
Hillary Skewes (inc. rhythm bass for TV and film )
Music Solutions
Urban Soul Orchestra
West End
Phantom of the opera (deputy)
Mary Poppins (deputy)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (deputy)
Me and my Girl (touring)
Cabaret (Chichester Festival)
Solo
Julian Dawes Sonata [World Premier]
Luke Stoneham and Aydin Teker (choreographer) “db-II-bass” (work premier )
World Premier State of the Nation [Purcell Room]
Dittersdorf Concerto in E
Keyper Romance and Rondo
Rock and Pop and Jazz Music
Live & Studio
Squeeze (member on bass guitar) ( inc Glastonbury Pyramid stage 2016 and Jools Holland shows)
Bass guitar and rhythm double bass band work inc Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers ,Katie Melua, Corduroy, Oi Va Voi, Slovo, Julian Lloyd Webber (Bosa Nova), Ronnie Scotts Rejects, Ian Broudie.
Composing, Arranging & Arranging
Musical as a director and composer for Curious Families (inc composing family concert and workshops commissioned by LSO discovery )
Glenn Tilbrook [Pandemonium Ensues album]
Noisettes [album string arrangements]
Slovo [string arrangements Todo Campia]
Reef [Sony, album Getaway]
Gogmagogs [for the show Troytown]
Subway Piranhas [various inc. TV programme Nut]
Education Work
Wigmore Learning Ensemble residency
LSO Education workshops [from 6 months to 18 years]
Concorda Summer course, Ireland [workshop leader]
Latymer School, Edmonton Bass tutor
Gogmagogs Workshops [theatre music, improvising and composing] inc Juiliard School, N.Y. U.S.A
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, creative project [assisting Sean Gregory]
