Lucie Horsch - About

It has been truly special to receive support from the BBT team. I felt I was in a safe space to be doubtful, to experiment, to brainstorm, even to fail and change course, which are all essential parts of any artistic process, without which we wouldn’t be able to come up with constructive and interesting projects. The whole experience of working with composers and knowing that these works are such invaluable additions to the recorder canon, shaping the way people think about the potential of my beautiful instrument, makes me very happy.

Charismatic Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch is a human dynamo when it comes to making ideas happen and executing them with passionate commitment, communicative skills and “fearsome virtuosity and superb technique” (BBC Music Magazine). Recognised early on as a stylish baroque virtuoso, Lucie’s curiosity and imagination also open doors to many genres of music and a multitude of recorder instruments with which to express them (she is also a gifted pianist and singer). She is regularly invited to play as a soloist with top orchestras all over Europe and beyond and, of course, at home in the Netherlands with such ensembles as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and B’Rock Orchestra.

The lion’s share of Lucie’s BBT award funded her commissioning of four vividly contrasting new works that met with great acclaim and the promise of many more performances into the future. These were a dramatic new concerto premiered with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, two more striking, baroque-inspired ensemble pieces, and an intimate duo for recorders and harpsichord.

As well as a new set of photographs, BBT was also pleased to support the promotion of Lucie’s fourth album for Decca with a short film about the collection of rare historic recorders – a legacy of her personal hero Frans Brüggen, legendary pioneer of the early music revival – which she was allowed to play for the recording project.

Lucie was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2022 and 2026.

For a current biography please visit luciehorsch.com or harrisonparrott.com

Read a blog by Lucie, My First Three Commissions, here

Press Release: Voices from the Past – The Frans Brüggen Project

Photographs by Marco Borggreve