Lucie Horsch

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Lucie Horsch

The sparkling 24-year-old rising star Lucie Horsch is a passionate and charismatic advocate of her instrument. First revealed as a recorder wunderkind and now a stylish baroque virtuoso, Lucie is a smart and innovative musician who brings her curiosity into exploring multiple musical genres and developing new repertoire with incredible talent.

In 2022, Lucie was awarded a much-coveted Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, which supports outstanding young musicians (BBT Artists). In June 2020, she received the prestigious Dutch Music Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science to a musician working in classical music. Starting from the 2024/25 season, Lucie will be “Junge Wilde” at the Konzerthaus Dortmund for three seasons.

Recent and upcoming highlights include debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Ton Koopman, Tonhalle Orchester with Jan Willem de Vriend, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Benjamin Bayl. She also has recitals at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Thüringer Bachwochen, Solsberg Festival, Wigmore Hall, Festival de Pâques Aix en Provence, KKL Luzern, La Chaux de Fonds, and LSO St Luke’s, collaborating with partners such as Ton Koopman, Olga Pashchenko, Thomas Dunford, Justin Taylor, and Max Volbers. Tours in Europe include performances with the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and in Japan with the B’Rock Orchestra. Lucie also tours in Europe with her folk and jazz-inspired Origins project, featuring guests like Sean Shibe, Raphaël Feuillâtre, and the Fuse Ensemble in festivals and venues such as Wigmore Hall, Rheingau Musik Festival, Classique au Vert Paris, Bremer Musikfest, Dresden Music Festival, Società del Quartetto Milan, and Konzerthaus Vienna. During the 2023/24 season, Lucie is Artist in Residence at the Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht.

Lucie is an exclusive Decca Classics artist. Her debut CD featuring concertos and other works by Vivaldi received the 2017 Edison Klassiek Award. Her second album, Baroque Journey, recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and Thomas Dunford, features works by Sammartini, Bach, Marin Marais, and Händel, among others. It reached No. 1 in the UK Classical Charts and was awarded the prestigious OPUS KLASSIK prize in Germany in 2019. In her third album, Origins, released in September 2022, Lucie explores folk-inspired and traditional music from around the world, with dazzling arrangements of works by 20th-century modernists from Bartok, Debussy, and Stravinsky to Piazzolla, Isang Yun, and Charlie Parker, alongside traditional tunes from the four corners of the world with a stunning team of guest artists. Origins was awarded the Edison Klassiek Audience Prize in 2023.

Born into a family of professional musicians, Lucie began studying the recorder at the age of five. Only four years later, her televised performance of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 at a popular concert on the Prinsengracht canal caused a national sensation. At the age of eleven, after winning many competitions, she moved to the Sweelinck Academie at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where she studied the recorder with Walter van Hauwe. Also a talented pianist, she studied with Marjes Benoist and Jan Wijn at the Amsterdam Conservatorium. She was a member of the National Children’s Choir for seven years, performing with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons, and Jaap van Zweden. In 2014, she was chosen to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Young Musicians contest, and in 2016, she was awarded the prestigious Concertgebouw Young Talent Award in the presence of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Lucie plays on recorders made by Seiji Hirao, Frederick Morgan, Stephan Blezinger, and Jacqueline Sorel, made possible by the generous support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.