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Lucy Armstrong | |
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| Born | September 2, 1991 |
| Education | University of Bristol, Royal Northern College of Music |
| Occupation | Composer |
Lucy Armstrong (born 2 September 1991) is a British composer based in London, who was appointed Fellow of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London in 2018. She is currently doing a three year residency at Glydnebourne.[1]
Armstrong composed a chamber opera, Nadja's Song, for the Bergen National Opera which premiered in Bergen and was later performed at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London and in Bogotá.[2][3][4]
In 2022, Salford Choral Society and The Piccadilly Symphony orchestra premiered a 25 minute work for chorus and orchestra by Armstrong and Rebecca Hurst.[5] In 2023, The Cambridge Philharmonic and chorus commissioned a piece which was premiered in March 2023.
Conductor Chloé van Soeterstède and The Arch Sinfonia commissioned a 20 minute saxophone concerto which was premiered with Gillian Blair playing alto saxophone in June 2023.[6]
She has composed for: Psappha, London Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Fontana Mix (Italy) Size Zero Opera, The Borealis Saxophone Quartet, RNCM Engage, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, The Meon Valley Orchestra, John Miller's Brazmataz, Gillian Blair, Erin Royer and A4 Brass.[7][8][9] Her work has been performed in venues such as St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Lyric Theatre, The Bridgewater Hall, RADA Studios and St James Piccadilly and her music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.[10]
Armstrong was an Royal Philharmonic Society composer in 2021, where she wrote a piece for horn and piano for Wigmore Hall.[11]
- ^ Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne (March 2023). "Balancing the Score 2023". Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ^ "Nadjas song til Tete-a-Tete - Bergen Nasjonale Opera". old.bno.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Synger for Nadjas gjenferd". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Eventos - Universidad Nacional de Colombia". patrimoniocultural.bogota.unal.edu.co. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ Choral, Salford (April 2022). "Our Wonderful World".
- ^ Hurgul, Planet (9 May 2023). "Women of Note: Arch Sinfonia and Chloé Van Soeterstède in music by Lucy Armstrong, Ylva Skog and Emilie Mayer".
- ^ "Starry Night – Psappha". www.psappha.com. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Caught in Treetops – Psappha". www.psappha.com. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Classical Events: Caught in Treetops". Classical Events. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Lucy Armstrong - Concerts, Biography & News - BBC Music". BBC. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ Philarmonic, Royal (2021). "Lucy Armstrong – RPS Composer 2021 | Commission for Wigmore Hall as the Rosie Johnson RPS Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer".