Lucie Horsch

At 20, Lucie Horsch is already a much sought-after soloist at home and abroad. She grew up in a musical family and took recorder lessons from the age of five. A TV performance during the AVRO Kinderprinsengrachtconcert brought her national fame. Two years later, she began her studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music with Walter van Hauwe. Lucie is also a talented pianist and studies piano with Jan Wijn. She was also a member of the National Children's Choir for seven years. In 2013, after a live television performance at "De Avond van de Jonge Musicus", Lucie was chosen to represent the Netherlands at the final of "Eurovision Young Musician" in Cologne. She also performed solo with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble during the official farewell to Queen Beatrix in Ahoy, also broadcast live on TV. In 2016, Lucie won the prestigious Concertgebouw Young Talent Award, which was presented to her in the presence of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Lucie forms a duo with French lutenist Thomas Dunford. Together, they have already played concerts at the Philharmonie in Essen, the Brucknerhaus in Linz and the Auditori in Girona. Next season, they will perform at the Concertgebouw's Recital Hall in Amsterdam and London's Wigmore Hall, among other venues. Another of Lucie's duo partners is harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya. Lucie has performed at festivals such as the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, the International Chamber Music Festival Schiermonnikoog and further at the Budapest Spring Festival, the Festspiele MecklenburgVorpommern, the MDR Musiksommer, the Hindsgavl Festival in Denmark and the Musiksommer am Zürichsee in Switzerland. Lucie Horsch has an exclusive recording contract with prestigious label Decca Classics in London. About her debut CD of works by Vivaldi, BBC Music Magazine wrote: "Fearsome virtuosity and superb technique. A disc to buy and display in years to come as the start of a distinguished career". The NRC wrote: "Overwhelming playing pleasure, movingly pure sound". For this recording, Lucie received the Edison Klassiek in the category "The debut". The jury commented: "Through Lucie Horsch's recorder, Vivaldi's music sounds alternately playful, sprightly, intense, melancholic, serious, dark and melodious. Pretty much like life itself. From the first notes, you feel that Horsch is absorbed in the music with skin and hair." In February, Decca released her second album 'Baroque Journey', recorded in collaboration with French lutenist Thomas Dunford and the Academy of Ancient Music, with whom she toured England and the Netherlands. This album was awarded the prestigious Opus Klassik Award. Together with Kian Soltani, Lucie also made the first recording of Leonard Bernstein's "Variations on an Octatonic Scale" for Deutsche Grammophon. Lucie has worked with orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the Residentie Orkest, the Gelderland Orchestra and the Staatsorchester Kassel. She has also performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. This season, Lucie appeared at the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht together with B'Rock Orchestra, with which she then did a concert tour of Japan. She will soon perform a work by composer Erkki-Sven Tüür in Sweden with the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra. Lucie plays on recorders built by Seiji Hirao, Frederick Morgan, Stephan Blezinger and Jacqueline Sorel, thanks in part to the support of the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund.