Lucy Armstrong


Lucy Armstrong 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.
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.
In 2022, Salford Choral Society and The Piccadilly Symphony orchestra premiered a 25 minute work for chorus and orchestra by Armstrong and Rebecca Hurst. 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.
She has composed for: Psappha, London Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Fontana Mix 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. 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.
Armstrong was an Royal Philharmonic Society composer in 2021, where she wrote a piece for horn and piano for Wigmore Hall.

Education

Armstrong studied music at The University of Bristol. She then studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music under Adam Gorb and Gary Carpenter between 2013 and 2015 where she was awarded the Alan Rawsthorne Prize for Composition in 2015 and was highly commended in the RNCM Gold Medal competition. In 2017 and 2018 she then studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Julian Philips.

Selected works

Opera

Gods of the Game
A Risk of Lobsters
Tale of the Tell-Tale Tail
Nadja's Song
''The Library''

Choir and Orchestra

The Alchemical Kitchen
''The Gardener''

Orchestra

''Saxophone Concerto''

Wind band

Life is a Daring Adventure or Nothing
''Marine Overture''

Chamber music

Dynamic Corpse
The Executioner's Pond
The Whale's Cabaret
The Other Dust
The Singing Fish
Space Adventure
SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT
Attraction
DARTH MAHLER
Melodrama for Saxophone and Piano ''' '''

Vocal music

Masculine/Feminine
Cheese!
''Interior''