Lucie Horsch

Lucie Horsch,
recorder

Sparkling 24 year-old rising star Lucie Horsch is a passionate and charismatic advocate of her instrument. First revealed as a recorder Wunderkind, become a stylish baroque virtuoso, Lucie is a smart and innovative musician bringing her curiosity into approaching multiple musical genres and developing new repertoire with the same incredible talent.

In 2022, Lucie has been given a much-coveted Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. The Borletti-Buitoni Trust supports outstanding young musicians (BBT Artists). In June 2020, Lucie received the very 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 or Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Benjamin Bayl, tours in Europe 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.

In recital, Lucie Horsch is the guest of many renowned concert halls and festivals, including the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Thüringer Bachwochen, Solsberg Festival, Wigmore Hall, Festival de Pâques Aix en Provence, KKL Luzern, La Chaux de Fonds, LSO St Luke’s, with such various partners as Ton Koopman, Olga Pashchenko, Thomas Dunford, Justin Taylor or Max Volbers, Lucie also tours in Europe with her folk and jazz-inspired Origins project featuring guests like Sean Shibe, Raphaël Feuillâtre, the Fuse Ensemble in festivals and venues like Wigmore Hall, the Rheingau Musik Festival, Classique au Vert Paris, Bremer Musikfest, the Dresden Music Festival, Società del Quartetto Milan, Konzerthaus Vienna. During the 2023/24 season, Lucie is Artist in residence at the Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht. Lors de la saison 23/24, Lucie est Artiste en résidence au Tivoli Vredenburg d’Utrecht. During the 2023/24 season, Lucie is Artist in residence at the Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht.

Lucie is an exclusive Decca Classics artist. His first disc was devoted to Vivaldi and won the prestigious Edison Klassiek prize in the Netherlands in 2017. Son deuxième disque, “Baroque Journey”, enregistré avec l’Academy of Ancient Music et Thomas Dunford, présente des œuvres de divers compositeurs baroques européens (Sammartini, Bach, Händel, Marin Marais notamment. The album was a real hit with the public and critics alike, reaching No.1 in the UK classical charts and winning the prestigious Opus Klassik award in Germany. Pour son troisième album intitulé Origins et paru chez Decca en septembre 2022 Lucie s’éloigne du répertoire baroque et présente un voyage aux quatre coins de la planète à travers des arrangements exceptionnels de musiques d’inspirations populaires ou folkloriques des cinq continents, allant de Bartok et Stravinsky à Piazzolla, Debussy, Isang Yun ou Charlie Parker en passant par des airs populaires irlandais, sénégalais ou latino- américains. Ce disque a reçu le prestigieux Prix du Public des Edison Awards en 2023.

Born into a family of professional musicians, Lucie began studying the recorder at the age of 5. Just four years later, she performed Brahms’ 5th Hungarian Dance on Dutch television, causing a sensation throughout the country. At the age of 11, already the winner of several prizes, she was admitted to the Sweelinck Academie at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where she studied with Walter van Hauwe. Also a talented pianist, she studied with Marjes Benoist and in Jan Wijn’s class at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She was a member of the National Children’s Choir for 7 years and has sung under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons and Jaap van Zweden. In 2014, she was chosen to represent the Netherlands at the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians. In 2016, she won the prestigious “Concertgebouw Young Talent Prize” in the presence of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Lucie plays flutes by Seiji Hirao, Frederick Morgan, Stephan Blezinger and Jacqueline Sorel, thanks to support from the Prins Bernhard Cultuutfonds.