Lucy
Scandrett is very active as a performer and teacher in the Pittsburgh
and Western Pennsylvania area. For many years she was Principal Harpist
for the Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra and
the Johnstown Symphony. Lucy also was solo harpist with the Pittsburgh
New Music Ensemble with whom she has recorded contemporary music for
CRI records. Presently she is active as a recitalist and performs
regularly with the Civic Light Opera Orchestra, the McKeesport Symphony
Orchestra, and Gateway to the Arts. She has played for numerous shows
and performers ranging from John Denver and Josh Groban to Yul Brynner,
Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. She is a native of Charlotte,
North Carolina, where she began the study of the harp at the age of
three with her mother, Elizabeth Clark. She began her professional
career at age 16 playing the Fantastiks at Barter Theater and has a
degree in Harp Performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory of
Music where she studied with Lucy Lewis. She received a Master of Music
degree in Musicology from Converse College in Spartanburg, South
Carolina where she was a teaching assistant and performer. Lucy also
studied privately with Lucile Lawrence and Alice Chalifoux.
Lucy is adjunct Professor of Harp at Indiana University of PA and
maintains an extensive private studio. She also teaches harp at the
College and Pre-college divisions at Chatham College and the Music
& Arts Day Camp as well as Seton Hill University, Geneva College, Ellis Academy
and Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA).
Lucy is President of the
American Harp
Society and has served in
numerous other capacities with the organization.
