Lucy Callen is a composer, conductor and pianist.
Lucy's music has been commissioned and performed by Psappha, Septura, CHROMA, Horsham Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, among many other ensembles and choirs. Her compositions span chamber, orchestral, choral, dance, theatre and film works. Many of these explore aleatoric devices; Lucy frequently involves the musicians she is writing for in the compositional process, collecting material through creative workshops she devises. Above all, Lucy’s work is concerned with the collision of disparate soundworlds – whether through juxtaposition of the colours and tones of instruments or voices, or by reimagining medieval material, early music and folksong.
Lucy is currently Music Director of CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) Sussex Ensemble. She has also conducted City Wind Orchestra, One Tree Hill Choir, Harrow Youth Philharmonic, the West of England Youth Orchestra, Horsham Symphony Orchestra, Bloomsbury Music Festival’s GoodEnsemble, and the London Musical Arts and assistant conducted the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz, Trondheim Soloists and the PLMF Music Trust.
Previously pianist and resident composer for Middlesex University Dance department, Lucy is developing an improvisational performance project with Anglo-French jazz guitarist Hugo Lippi and has performed with acapella groups Deep Throat Choir, Owl Parliament and Treemendus, and with folk story-telling band Nancy Goose at Secret Garden Party and Wilderness festivals. She holds a Master’s degree in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music in London, which she attended on a full scholarship.
Lucy's music has been commissioned and performed by Psappha, Septura, CHROMA, Horsham Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, among many other ensembles and choirs. Her compositions span chamber, orchestral, choral, dance, theatre and film works. Many of these explore aleatoric devices; Lucy frequently involves the musicians she is writing for in the compositional process, collecting material through creative workshops she devises. Above all, Lucy’s work is concerned with the collision of disparate soundworlds – whether through juxtaposition of the colours and tones of instruments or voices, or by reimagining medieval material, early music and folksong.
Lucy is currently Music Director of CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) Sussex Ensemble. She has also conducted City Wind Orchestra, One Tree Hill Choir, Harrow Youth Philharmonic, the West of England Youth Orchestra, Horsham Symphony Orchestra, Bloomsbury Music Festival’s GoodEnsemble, and the London Musical Arts and assistant conducted the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz, Trondheim Soloists and the PLMF Music Trust.
Previously pianist and resident composer for Middlesex University Dance department, Lucy is developing an improvisational performance project with Anglo-French jazz guitarist Hugo Lippi and has performed with acapella groups Deep Throat Choir, Owl Parliament and Treemendus, and with folk story-telling band Nancy Goose at Secret Garden Party and Wilderness festivals. She holds a Master’s degree in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music in London, which she attended on a full scholarship.