Lucy Robinson
Lucy Robinson is passionate about performing
Baroque music on historically accurate instruments, not only
studying the techniques of the time but exploring the environment
in which it was written—even what the musicians read and ate. To
this end she studied at York (BA), Cambridge (PhD entitled ‘The
Forquerays and the French Viol Tradition’) and the Brussels
Conservatoire, for which she was awarded a Churchill Travelling
Fellowship to study with the viol player Wieland Kuijken. Lucy has
subsequently performed in venues from the Wigmore Hall to Fez to
Sydney Opera House. She hosts Baroque summer schools in Marnaves,
France and also plays the viola with the Welsh Baroque
Orchestra.
Lucy has an international reputation for her research into Baroque
music, especially into the viol and French chamber music. She has
published editions of Bach (Faber) and Couperin (Le Pupitre), and
over 20 articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians (including ‘The Viol’); she reviews
regularly for Early Music. After 12 years as Head of
Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Royal Welsh College of
Music and Drama, she is relishing finding the space to write and
publish.