16–24 March 2024 – Lucy conducts massed all-comer ensemble CoMA Sussex, CoMA London, CoMA Singers and BHASVIC. A programme of contemporary works for the CoMA 2024 Festival including premieres by Uri Agnon, Jasmine Morris, Matt Gilley and Angela Elizabeth Slater and some CoMA favourites including by May-Kau Yau, Laurence Crane, Phil Cashian, David Onac, Lluis Nadal.
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Aestus performs GRANDMOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS in Rome on 28 July 2023, and at BRQ Vantaa Festival, Helsinki on 9 August 2023
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24 July 2023 – Livestream premiere of Toby Hughes's recording Lucy's new work for solo double-bass, PAPER KITE, written as part of Psappha's Composing For scheme. Listen here.
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5 May 2023 – BBC Radio 3 broadcast Lucy's choral work A SONGBOOK OF SPACES, recorded last year by The Phoenix Voices. The commission was supported by Sound and Music and Making Music. Listen here until 5 June.
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4 May 2023 – World Premiere of GARDEN OF ROCKS – Lucy's narrated musical children's tale, set in the time of the last life on earth. Lorelay, a little girl aged seven or eight, ventures out across the stony landscape to seek new friends. She finds a curious group of five creatures, and together they play. But all too soon, they fall silent, leaving Lorelay alone once more in this fragile world.
Performed by CHROMA as part of RAM Fragile Festival 2023 |
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Lucy and theatre-maker Dylan Read have begun work on the development of TOCKS TICK SLOW, an opera Lucy wrote that was workshopped and filmed last summer with cast soprano Clara Barbier Serrano, bass singer Thomas Chenhall, saxophonist Robert Finegan, cellist Tamaki Sugimoto and pianist Grytė Navardauskaitė.
What strange dreams emerge when we are bound by isolation and the constraints of a locked-down existence? Can this yearning for connection also open-up a new and unexpected window of hope? A musical and visual journey from frustration to hope and back again, proposing a transformative encounter where the human and natural worlds collide. |