Meet the ComposHer: Lucy Hollingworth

Check out today's Meet the ComposHER interview with Lucy Hollingworth!

She started to compose in the 80, when she's got an MusB Hons, and in the 90's won prizes at the YAA Young Composers Competition at the Huddersfield Festival. After that, she had a 20 year hiatus for personal reasons. But she never gave up, and 20 years later, Lucy came back and is finishing her PhD in The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland supervised by Gordon McPherson.

Learn more about her and her awesome works in the Meet the ComposHer of this week!

From the age of around 12 years when I realized that I could, but I had imagined being one from as young as 5 years old.

Judith Weir, because I saw her succeeding where I was struggling as a young composer.

Being a composer and a woman. I suffered from some problems with gender discrimination as a young woman, and I was very disheartened. I stopped composing for a long time.

I hear something in my mind, and I work to produce what I hear. I build my pieces up from small units into larger blocks of sound, often intensely contrapuntal; it is a great joy to succeed in creating the sounds that come from within me.

I chose this because it is a work about how I turned my life around and became a successful composer against all the odds. The owl symbolizes the moment of transformation when I took control of my own life.