clarinet

Lucy Downer

Clarinet

Bass clarinet • E flat clarinet • Basset horn • Saxophone • Flute

Email: lucyd_clarinet@hotmail.com

Date of Birth: 19th July 1985

 

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Professional Orchestral

·         BBC Symphony Orchestra (Extra List & Trial for Principal Bass Clarinet/3rd)

·         BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Extra List)

·         RTÉ Concert Orchestra (2nd)

·         John Adams: ‘I was looking at the ceiling & then I saw the sky’ – part of the Barbican’s ‘Blaze’ festival (Bb/Bass)

·         The Dionysus Ensemble (Opera)

·         All Souls Orchestra

·         New English Orchestra

·         Dartington Festival Orchestra (2nd)

·         Oriana Ensemble (Contemporary Opera)

·         Canterbury Choral Society Orchestra – Bass

 

Orchestral Training

·         LPO Future Firsts Programme

·         LSO Wind, Brass & Percussion Scheme (Bass & Principal)

·         City Side Sinfonia

·         YMSO (Bass/3rd )

·         Contemporary Music Ensemble (RFH)

·         Bradford Film Festival – Silent Film (Saxes)

·         London International Orch of Academia (2nd)

·         Eden Chamber Orchestra (2nd)

 

·         European Union Youth Orchestra (Reserve)

·         RAM Manson & Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Basset)

·         Orchestra of the City (Alto Sax)

·         Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra(E flat)

·         Contempoary Music Ensemble – Wigmore (Bass)

·         RAM Leverhulme Orchestra (E flat/Bass)

·         RAM Symphony & Concert Orchestras

·         Ensembl’Azul (Contemporary Music Group)

 

Recordings

·         David Erik Gross CD (Principal)

·         BBC SO live – Radio 3 ∙ Radio France ∙ Arte TV ∙ Aeon CD (Bass)

·         All Souls Orchestra Radio 4 Christmas Day Service (Principal)

·         All Souls Orchestra CDs & DVDs

·         RAM Media & Applied Music Orchestras (Click Tracks)

·         Pinewood Studios Backing Tracks (Bass)

·         Akiko Ogawa ‘The Crypt’ & Clarinet Concerto

·         Weber Concertino – Banbury Symphony Orchestra CD

 

Concertos

·         Akiko Ogawa ‘The White Bird’ & Clarinet Concerto

·         Daniel Cohen ‘Aquascapes’ (Bass)

 

·         Mozart Clarinet Concerto

·         Weber – Concertino

Awards

·         David Taylor Trust Fund Award

·         Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize

 

·         Ian Fleming MBF Award

·         EMI Music Foundation Award

·         Israeli International Music Competition (Semi-Finalist)

·         John Solomon Woodwind Prize (Bass 2nd Place)

·         RAM Foundation Award (Chamber Music/Orchestral Playing)

·         Irene Burcher Woodwind Prize (Final Recitals - 3rd Place)

·         Henri Selmer World Bass Clarinet Competition (the only UK player) - Quarter-Finalist

 

Education

·         RAM – BMus 1st Class ∙ PG Dip Distinction ∙ LRAM (2003 – 2008)

Professors: Richard Addison ∙ Timothy Lines ∙ Angela Malsbury ∙ Nicholas Rodwell ∙ Mark van de Wi el

 

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