Dutch musician Lucie Horsch first gained recognition as a recorder prodigy and has since developed a career that bridges early music, contemporary repertoire, and cross-genre projects.
In 2020, she received the Dutch Music Award, the highest distinction awarded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to a classical musician. Two years later, she was granted a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, which supports outstanding young artists. During the 2021/22 season, she toured major European halls as part of the ECHO Rising Stars programme. In 2023/24, she is Artist in Residence at TivoliVredenburg Utrecht, where she also performs as a pianist and singer.
Horsch is an exclusive Decca Classics artist. Her debut album, released in 2017 and devoted to works by Vivaldi, was awarded the Edison Klassiek Award. Her second release, Baroque Journey, featuring music by Sammartini, Bach, Marais, and Händel, was recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and Thomas Dunford. It reached No. 1 in the UK Classical Charts and received an Opus Klassik award in 2019. In 2022, she released Origins, an album exploring folk-inspired and traditional music alongside works by Bartók, Debussy, Stravinsky, Piazzolla, Isang Yun, and Charlie Parker. In 2023, Origins received the Edison Klassiek Audience Prize.
In late 2024, Horsch released a new album paying tribute to recorder pioneer Frans Brüggen. Using Brüggen’s collection of historic recorders—dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries and made available to her by his widow—she recorded works by Haydn, Corelli, Telemann, Chédeville, Marcello, and Bach. Due to the fragility of the instruments, some recordings were limited to just two takes. She is joined by Rachel Podger, Albert Brüggen, Tom Foster, and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
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