We feel privileged to have been part of Lucy's compositional development during her time at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Since then, enjoying her friendship and having regular updates on her musical journey has been special for us. Her positive spirit and energy will live on in her music.' 

“working with Lucy was a true pleasure, her spirit and musicality shone through everything she did. She accomplished a huge amount already, but had so much more ahead. A true talent has been lost. The world of music is poorer today.” - Carien Meijer, Chief Executive of Drake Music

“Lucy loved collaborating and was open and generous throughout our creative process. She was simply overflowing with ideas and brought such a great energy and spirit to the project. Her music will be with us forever and we are so lucky to have been able to share it with her. We have lost a truly wonderful musician and a lovely (and very witty) lady!”

Lucy was such a kind person, very bright and with a dry sense of humour. She was a talented, brilliant and versatile Disabled composer, liked and respected immediately by everyone she came into contact with. Over the last five years Lucy became an integral part of the Drake Music family and the news of her death is just heart-breaking.

Lucy’s work was complex and perhaps challenging to younger ears, but she found a way to make her process and style accessible to young people at the very beginning of their musical journey. As part of this project, she helped Fusion, a group of young female musicians, to develop a piece of self-penned music for 

Everyone in the RNCM community viewed Lucy as a remarkable and extraordinary young woman with whom it was a pleasure and privilege to work. She balanced her talent and determination to pursue her chosen career path with humility and was committed to make the most of every opportunity available to her. She was also a powerful role model for her peers.

We were extremely proud to see Lucy flourish in her studies at the RNCM and go on to build the career she had so desperately wanted. She touched the hearts of everyone who was fortunate enough to know and work with her. Her music will live on, as will she in all our memories.

Mostly my memories at the moment seem to be centering around those Friday evenings, when Ellie and Rosie were at the Ice rink. Preparation would start a day or two earlier when Lu and Katie would ring each other to decide what they’d play, Sylvanians, cuddlies, self play etc . Katie would have her stuff laid out and Lu would arrive ‘in character’ so they didn’t waste a minute of their time. Her imagination and creativity inspiring Katie in the stories they wove and played out. Lu was also my living Wikipedia- if I needed to know any random fact I’d just ask Lu, she never let me down, and of course the inevitable barricade at the end of the evening which made it hard for us to separate them, who knew that two small girls could be so strong or determined!

Lucy has achieved such amazing things since she came to the Sound and Music summer school and I have always followed her with great interest and pride. She was writing such fantastic music (I've just listened to everything on her sound cloud!) and she was taking on really interesting roles. Memorable days for me were when I made a couple of visits to a project in Liverpool, where she was an apprentice composer for Drake Music - who we were collaborating with. She introduced the young disabled participants to some very left-field contemporary music (Stockhausen I think!) but in such an inclusive and accessible way that helped the youngsters see how they might make scores like those themselves.

Lucy was an extraordinary force for good, never letting the disability she lived with limit her musical dreams. She shone at composition in her days attending the Royal College of Music Junior Department, and proceeded to study at the Royal Northern College of Music as an undergraduate with Adam Gorb and David Horne, and as a postgraduate with Gary Carpenter and Emily Howard. She graduated from her Masters in 2019 with a distinction.

In a few short years she achieved so much: she was the inaugural Young Composer-in-Association with BSO Resound, Young Composer-in-Residence with Orchestras for All, and a dedicated Associate Musician with Drake Music. She brought such energy and curiosity to every pursuit, and had seemingly endless appetite for collaboration and innovation, which saw her writing for choreographers, for film, for the opening of the high-profile venue HOME in Manchester, and for flautist Kathryn Williams’ album Coming up for Air released by NMC Recordings.