VOICES FROM NO MAN'S LAND was the opening event for the 2014 Ageas Salisbury Arts Festival. Performed within the cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral, the project was presented as an immersive sound installation, where the stories, songs and sounds were ever-changing within the performance - seeing the events from many perspectives; both spatially and narratively. The audience were offered the freedom to move around during the performance and listen from different locations, whilst the 100 male vocal 'recruits' perform songs, trench calls and narrations based on letters, historical documents and recollections from Christmas 1914.

In 2014, Lucy was a featured artist with the Arts Council-funded Immix Ensemble, based in Liverpool. This saw her be appointed as joint composer-in-residence with John McGrath (Liverpool University) for a project that culminated in a performance and recording in November 2014. Lucy and John collaborated on several works and performed together in the concert with Lucy’s Cantabiles, for tenor horn (with effects pedals) and guitar.

In 2008, Lucy was asked to compose a piece for Northern Rail. In association with the Royal Northern College of Music, the work was to head a programme of music inspired by rail travel to commemorate 40 years since the ‘end of steam’; when the last steam engine travelled on British rails in 1968. 'Newton Heath Variations' utilises two brass bands, a steam train and diesel train to chronologically illustrate the journey through the life of the British railway and Newton Heath Maintenance Depot. Dr. Nicolas Childs conducted the RNCM and Wardle Anderson bands in the premiere at Newton Heath Depot to great appreciation from audience, performers and Northern rail executives alike.

Lucy's PhD research at the RNCM focussed on the traditional British Brass Band in atypical settings. This includes the application of electronics, brass with voices and projects that challenge the traditional concert stereotype.  Examples of thi work include: STRATUM STRATUS for euphonium and baritone ensemble, 'DIP' for the A4 Brass Quartet and PATHWAYS.

PATHWAYS is a commission project for three brass bands, supported by Arts Council England, Durham County Council and the NRBBT. It was premiered in the Gala Theatre as part of the 2015 Brass; Durham International Arts Festival, featuring the Cory Band (cond. Philip Harper), the Tredegar Town Band (cond. Ian Porthouse) and the Reg Vardy Band (cond. John Roberts)The three ensembles combine into a massed band - exploring different 'pathways' through the music, as an allegorical reference to the unifying elements of the brass band movement.

As a music educator and animateur, Lucy has composed numerous pieces for youth ensembles, including 3minuteWARNING for the Foden’s Youth Brass Band/Manger Folkehøgskule and Silent Guardians (based on the myths of the Liver Birds) for the Sefton Youth String Orchestra.  Most recently, she completed a special commission for the Macclesfield Youth Brass Bands to mark their tenth anniversary. 'Brass Roots; Musical Wings' brought together all four MYBB ensembles in an 18-minute work, premiered at the RNCM as part of their anniversary concert in July 2015 (see below) The piece was also shortlisted for a British Composer Award in 2016.

She is also a dedicated teacher of brass and composition and, in additon to teachning at the University of Huddersfield, she has worked with youth ensembles and taught in local schools for the past 12 years.  Lucy has also developed and delivered a whole-class programme of music for KS2 beginner brass and is currently compiling a collection of flexible educational pieces for all instrumet families. She also regularly leads composition workshops and delivers educational music composition projects in Primary Schools in Halton and Warrington.

The latest ABRSM Brass syllabus features some of Lucy’s works, as published in the new Shining Brass books.