Lucy Crowe - Soprano

Lucy was born in Staffordshire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers included Beatrice Unsworth and Clara Taylor. She received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal in 2002, won the Second Prize at this year’s Kathleen Ferrier Awards and is a Wigmore Young Artist.

She has sung with the English Concert under Andrew Manze in Poland and Belgium, ‘Dido and Aeneas’ with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Richard Egarr at the Barbican and at the BBC Proms, Vaughan Williams ‘Pastoral Symphony’ with the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox, ‘ Messiah’ under Trevor Pinnock in Canada, Harry Christophers in Japan and Sir David Willcocks at the Royal Albert Hall and Gounod’s ‘Messe Solennelle’ in St Sulpice, also under Sir David Willcocks. At the Aldeburgh Festival she has sung ‘Acis and Galatea’ (Galatea) under Richard Egarr, Britten’s ‘Praise we Great Men’ with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo, and Mendelssohn’s ‘Lobgesang’ under Paul Daniel. She recently toured Italy and Portugal with Trevor Pinnock and sang with the English concert at Wigmore Hall and in Malaga .

Operatic engagements include Susanna in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ for Garsington Opera, Michal in Handel’s ‘Saul’ for Opera North, the ‘ Early Earth Operas’, an education project with the English National Opera; ‘Mitridate’ with the Classical Opera Company; the title role in ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ with British Youth Opera, Narcissa in Haydn’s ‘Philemon und Baucis’ in the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival under Trevor Pinnock and Juno in Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ for the London Bach Festival at The Linbury Studio, Covent Garden.

Lucy has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the Chelsea Arts Club and the National Portrait Gallery. She has also performed Wolf’s ‘Italienisches Liederbuch’ at the Belfast Festival with Julius Drake.

Her current operatic engagements include Susanna for Opera North and her first Sophie in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ for Scottish Opera.