While still a student she was invited to play with London Baroque and the English Baroque Soloists, and by the City of London Festival as a solo violinist in their production/recording of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea.
She has been a member of the Fitzwilliam since 1988, becoming leader in 1995; with them she has played all over Europe, North America, and South Africa, as well as making recordings for Linn Records, the BBC, and various foreign radio stations. She has recorded for Channel Classics, Hyperion, DG, and Decca with other ensembles, having been leader of Florilegium, Concerto Caledonia, Classical Opera Company, the Finchcocks Quartet, and the New Chamber Opera Band of Players as well as a director of the Scottish Early Music Consort and a solo violinist in the New London Consort. She now leads The King’s Consort, Retrospect Ensemble, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Dunedin Consort and has been invited to guest lead for the City of London Sinfonia.
She recently become Associate Leader of Southern Sinfonia, and has also directed the Danish group Ensemble Zimmerman.
She has taught and given masterclasses all over the world – in the Czech Republic, the US, South Africa, and Russia. Closer to home, she has worked at the Royal Academy of Music with the Modern Instrument Baroque Orchestra and at Royal Holloway College, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, Birmingham Conservatoire, York University, the Royal Northern College of Music, St Mary’s Music School Edinburgh, and Pro Corda. She is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music.
Lucy loves to divide her time between performing on period instruments and their “modern” counterparts, exploring music from Purcell to the present day. She has studied with three former Fitzwilliam leaders – Christopher Rowland, Daniel Zisman, and Jonathan Sparey – as well as Roger Raphael, Sidney Griller, Emanuel Hurwitz, Simon Fischer, Micaela Comberti, Catherine Mackintosh, and Elizabeth Wilcock.