Lucy Blomfield : Associate Artist
Lucy Blomfield is a Sydney-based composer, performer and educator
working on Wallumedegal and Gadigal land, passionate about
contributing to and promoting the contemporary Australian music
scene. Her compositional style is situated in the contemporary
classical genre, where she composes for a diverse range of
instrumentations, specialising in choral and vocal work. Lucy is
a PhD candidate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (USYD)
whose research is exploring the contemporary Australian opera
scene from a collaborative and compositional perspective. She
completed her Bachelor of Composition (Honours) in 2023 studying
under Australian composers such as Paul Stanhope, Damien
Ricketson and Liza Lim.
Lucy was recently commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony
Orchestra's annual 'Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers'
Program 2025', where she will compose an orchestral work for the
Orchestra, to be performed in 2026. In early 2025 Lucy debuted
two new commissions: a vocal work for Melbourne's Divisi Chamber
Ensemble as part of their Compose Queer x Queerstories program,
and a string ensemble work for Caesura Ensemble. In 2024 Lucy was
commissioned to compose choral works for St Stephen's Pitt St
Uniting Church and Trinity College Choir, Melbourne. She was
awarded the Helen Channon Memorial Prize for a composition for
choir and organ and was the winner of the annual Sydney
Conservatorium of Music orchestral composition reading. In 2023
Lucy was selected to travel to the University of Houston for her
chamber work to be workshopped and performed in both Sydney and
Houston, Texas. She has also had premieres by St Paul's College
Choir and the Sydney Conservatorium's New Music Ensemble, Choir,
and Chamber Choir.
Lucy is an alto chorister in the Choir of St James' King Street
and performs regularly with the Choir and various other vocal
ensembles. She is a Casual Academic at the Sydney Conservatorium,
tutoring music histories and aural skills.
Biography provided by the composer — current to August 2025