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.
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.
She has composed for: Size Zero Opera, The Borealis Saxophone Quartet, The Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra, Psappha, 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.

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

A Risk of Lobsters
Tale of the Tell-Tale Tail
Nadja’s Song
The Library

Wind band

Life is a Daring Adventure or Nothing
Marine Overture

Chamber music

The Other Dust
The Singing Fish
Space Adventure
SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT
Attraction
DARTH MAHLER
REPULSION  
Melodrama for Saxophone and Piano  
Jolt

Vocal music

Masculine/Feminine
Cheese!
Interior