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 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.