Lucy Humphris is one of the UK’s most innovative and versatile performers. Her fresh and original approach seeks to widen the instrument’s repertoire and push beyond both musical and technical boundaries.
Her debut album, Obscurus, released in March 2023, is an exploration of the obscured, in a programme which showcases some of the most incredible trumpet writing of the 20th and 21st century, as well as several reimaginings of older, more mainstream works for other instruments, with pianist Harry Rylance.
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An ever-curious musician, the list of her performances and collaborations is a varied one. Current collaborations with composers include Bethan Morgan-Williams and Claire Cope, as well as recent commissions from Kirsten Milenko and Nneka Cummins.
Other collaborations include performing on William Fox's 2021 album of Cecilia McDowall's organ works; with The Ligeti Quartet for their 2023 album of works by Anna Meredith, Nuc; joining folk artists Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith for their annual winter show Awake Arise; and producing an album of chiptune sea shanties with The Longest Johns. Working with percussionist and filmmaker Tim Williams, she travelled out to the Orkneys to create a film for her album recording of Peter Maxwell Davies' Litany for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore.
As a regular guest of Ensemble Musikfabrik, The Monochrome Project, and Klangforum Wien, Lucy has performed in many of Europe's greatest concert halls. She was named as one of Classic FM's Rising Stars of 2023 and has given recitals around Europe. An avid commissioner and performer of new music; Lucy collaborates with both established and younger composers to create new works and programmes for trumpet. She has also performed at the Imagine Music festival at the Southbank Centre, in a new one-woman show titled The Secret Life of Trumpets, introducing the trumpet to children through storytelling.
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Lucy graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with First Class Honours (BMus) in 2019, where she was a recipient of the Winifred Agnes Disney scholarship. In 2012 she was one of the youngest to win the acclaimed London Symphony Orchestra Candide award.