As a pianist growing up in New Zealand, Lucy was a featured artist in NZ Music Month 2020. Her national competition successes included 2nd prize at NZ Mazda Foundation Young Performer of the Year in 2008 and the Lewis Eadyitable Trust's National Award Emerging Artists series in 2011. Her international successes included 3rd prize, the Sonata prize, and the People's Choice award at the 2010 and 2014 Kerikeri International Piano Competitions, as well being a semi-finalist and encouragement award winner at the 1st Australian International Chopin Competition. She also participated in the prestigious Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan. 2015, she was awarded the SOUNZ prize at the New Zealand Wallace National Piano Competition.

 

Aside from being an award-winning solo pianist, Lucy is also a passionate and versatile collaborative pianist. She regularly performs recitals with students from renowned faculty members at the Jacobs School of Music. highlights include collaborating with Dale Clevenger in the horn studio recital. From June to August 2019, Lucy worked at the Interlochen Arts as a collaborative pianist, collaborating with students in numerous concerts, recitals, and masterclasses with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She also has experience working as a ballet pianist with IU Ballet, serving as a rehearsal pianist for the production of Prokofiev’s Cinderella and will be working with IU Ballet again in Fall 2021, playing Philip Glass Four Movements for Two Pianos.Lucy was accepted into two prestigious collaborative fellowship programs: the International Bowdoin Festival and the Academy of the West in 2020. She will be returning to the International Bowdoin Festival as a fellow in summer 2021.

 

Having a special interest in playing New Music, Lucy performed “Wanderlust” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion, composed by Josiah Tayag Catalan, at the National Student Composers Conference in 2018.

 

Lucy worked at Truman State University as collaborative pianist from 2022 to 2023. She collaborated with faculty members such as Xin Gao and Eric Dickson, as well as composers like Victor Marquez and Mary Ellen Childs. She is featured in the CD album “The Moments Between” by Victor Marquez.

 

Currently, she is pursuing a Doctor of Music degree in collaborative piano and has studied under Anne Epperson, Kevin Murphy, Aram Arakelyan, and Charles Prestinari. She has been an associate instructor at the Jacobs School of Music since 2017. Before pursuing her Doctor of Music degree in collaborative piano, Lucy a Master’s degree in solo piano at the Jacobs School of Music in2018, studying under Edward Auer. Lucy studied with Rae de Lisle in New from the age of 12 until the end of her Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the University of Auckland.