Lucy Rash

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About Lucy

Lucy Rash is a renowned violinist/fiddle player, arranger/composer, multi-instrumentalist and artistic programmer whose diverse work traverses the spaces between defined genre and style.  

A classically trained violinist by trade, Lucy established a decade-long career in music education, with roles in artistic programming and operations at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and classroom teaching (music/history). It was in 2021 that she moved to establish a practice under her own name as a Resident Artist at Gasworks Arts Park, the beautiful, natural surrounds of which have inspired her most loved works to-date. 

Lucy’s practice now spans three distinct areas: composition/arrangement, live performance, and recording using strings, synthesisers, and vocals. Lucy’s arrangements and live performance work has featured in the output of artists including Ella Hooper (formerly of Killing Heidi), Jae Laffer (formerly of The Panics), Georgia Maq (Camp Cope), Watty Thompson, and others, and she has performed at venues including the Sydney Opera House, Hamer Hall, and other major venues around Australia. In 2023, Lucy’s arrangements for Watty Thompson’s debut, self-titled album premiered at #3 on the ARIA Top 40 Country Music Charts. 

Lucy tours and records regularly with her own band, Raging Hormones (alongside Nick Manuell of Bodyjar) and a range of prolific Australian acts, and has produced freelance work for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and more. 

Adapting her process to meet the needs of each project, the outcome of Lucy’s compositional work stems from an obsession with the ways in which music can both embody and elicit transcendental emotional and humanistic qualities. Melding a range of theoretical approaches (including a particular interest in twelve-tone technique) with her specialist knowledge of classical, contemporary, electronic, rock and country/folk tropes, Lucy produces refined arrangements that are elegant, timeless, and emotive. 

Lucy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Art History/Sociology with Music minor) and a Master of Teaching (Primary/Secondary).

Image Credits: Marcus Coblyn, Nick Manuell, Farley Webb