Lucy Mair studied Music and Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London, attended the Conservatorio di Benedetto Marcello, Venice, and graduated with an MMus in Performance and Composition from Newcastle University.
She was awarded a bursary to Oxenfoord International Summer School to work with Janis Kelly, Linda Ormiston and David Cowan, and then with Malcolm Martineau, Karen Cargill and Susan Bullock. She was twice awarded bursaries to study voice at The Dartington International Summer School for masterclasses with Joan Rodgers, Emma Kirkby and Jessica Cash.
As a recitalist, Lucy has performed at the Corbridge and Steyning Festivals and the Newcastle ‘New Music’ Festival. She performed the UK première of Alain Daniélou’s arrangement of Rabindranath Tagore’s Song Poems and the première for John Tavener at the funeral of his librettist and “spiritual mother”, Mother Thekla.
Oratorio performances include Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Schubert’s Mass in G and Mass in C, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Graun’s Der Tod Jesu and Mozart’s Mass in C.
She has sung roles in Così fan Tutte (Fiordiligi), Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford), Le Nozze di Figaro (Countess), The Bartered Bride (Mařenka) and L'Egisto (Bellezza).
As a member of Pippa Dames Longworth's Singing Salon, Lucy sang the role of Sandman in its popular, immersive performances of Hansel and Gretel at the world renowned Charleston House and Gardens and, at The Royal Pavilion Brighton, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Countess in The Marriage of Figaro.
Lucy works with singers from home in Hove and teaches singing at Roedean School.