Photo: DECCA Danavan Leeuwen
BIOGRAPHY
Sparkling 22 year-old Lucie Horsch is a passionate and charismatic advocate of her instrument. Born into a family of professional musicians, Lucie began to study the recorder at the age of five. Only four years later, her televised performance of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 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.
In 2014, she was chosen to represent The Netherlands in the Eurovision Young Musician contest and in 2016 she was awarded the prestigious Concertgebouw Young Talent Award, in the presence of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. In June 2020, Lucie received the very prestigious Dutch Music Award. In the 2021/22 season, Lucie was nominated by Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Cologne Philharmonie as ECHO Rising Star.
Recent and upcoming highlights include debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and tours with the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Orchestra of the 18th century and the B’Rock Orchestra. In recital Lucie forms a duo with French lutinist Thomas Dunford. The duo is invited to perform in such venues as Wigmore Hall, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Philharmonie Essen.
Lucie’s 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, reached the No. 1 in the UK Classical Charts and was awarded the prestigious OPUS KLASSIK prize in Germany in 2019.
Lucie Horsch was nominated by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Kölner Philharmonie
Performance dates
03/10/2021
Festspielhaus Baden/Baden
21/11/2021
Müpa Budapest
28/11/2021
Kölner Philharmonie
09/01/2022
NOSPR Katowice
11/01/2022
Philharmonie Luxembourg
12/01/2022
Concertgebouw Amsterdam
15 & 16/01/2022
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon
21/01/2022
Barbican London
22 & 23/01/22
Sage Gateshead
26/01/2022
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
04/02/2022
Stockholm Konserthuset
12/02/2022
L’Auditori Barcelona
09/03/2022
Philharmonie de Paris
11 & 12/03/22
Konzerthaus Dortmund
27/03/2022
BOZAR Brussels
04/05/2022
Wiener Konzerthaus
08/05/2022
Casa da Música Porto
