Lucy Pankhurst (born 1981)
Lucy Pankhurst is based in the northwest of England. She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in both performance (tenor horn) and composition, and in 2020 earned her PhD for her studies on contemporary applications of the traditional brass band.
Lucy Pankhurst is an advocate of the brass band and has written a program of music for brass students that YouTube searches will confirm is quite popular. Her project Puzzle Pieces for music students is a collection of works that can be played by a flexible array of instruments of various levels of difficulty.
Lucy Pankhurst’s recent work “Welcome to the Bandroom” combines music written for Foden’s Band and narration by Tom Redmond intended to highlight the various instruments of the brass band:
Don’t know the difference between a tuba and a euphonium, or a cornet and a flugel horn? This is the video for you!
Here’s a more traditional composition called Kokopelli for a trio of flutes: