Lucie Horsch - About

To be granted a BBT Fellowship means that some of my before seemingly unreachable artistic dreams have become feasible. I feel honoured to have received a Fellowship, as it’s a privilege to be able to prioritise my development and growth as an artist in this way.

Charismatic Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch is a human dynamo when it comes to making ideas happen and executing them with passionate commitment, communicative skills and “fearsome virtuosity and superb technique” (BBC Music Magazine).  Recognised early on as a stylish baroque virtuoso, Lucie’s curiosity and imagination also open doors to many genres of music and a multitude of recorder instruments with which to express them (she is also a gifted pianist and singer). She is regularly invited to play as a soloist with top orchestras all over Europe and beyond and, of course, at home in the Netherlands with such ensembles as the Royal Concertgebouw and B’Rock Orchestra.

Signed exclusively to Decca at the age of 16, Lucie has already recorded an impressive variety of repertoire from European baroque to folk inspired 20th century composers from every corner of the world. BBT was pleased to support the promotion of her fourth album with a new set of photographs and a short film about the collection of rare historic recorders – a legacy of her personal hero Frans Brüggen, legendary pioneer of the early music revival – which she was allowed to play for the recording project.

Yet the lion’s share of Lucie’s BBT funding has facilitated no less than four contrasting co-commissions in support of her ongoing mission to invest in, and extend, the recorder repertoire. A Song for You, Calliope Tsoupaki’s duet for recorder and harpsichord, was premiered by Lucie and Olga Pashchenko in April 2025, closely followed in May by Reza Namavar’s Fetiapoipoi (The Morning Star), a Vivaldi-inspired concerto first performed on tour with the Orchestra of the 18th Century. An orchestral concerto from Lotta Wennäkoski premiered by Lucie and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in October 2025 represents Lucie’s first time in such a big orchestral setting, followed by a premiere with the B’Rock Orchestra in January 2026 of another concerto written for her by Robert Zuidam.

Lucie has been supported with a BBT Fellowship since 2022.

For a current biography please visit luciehorsch.com or harrisonparrott.com

Read a blog by Lucie, A Hat Trick of Commissions, here

Press Release: Voices from the Past – The Frans Brüggen Project

Photographs by Marco Borggreve and Kaupo Kikkas