Lucy Crowe receives Santley Award

Soprano Lucy Crowe has been awarded the Musicians’ Company’s annual Santley Award. Endowed in memory of the baritone Sir Charles Santley, the award is given by the Company to singers, composers of vocal music and writers and researchers who explore singing in their work.

Crowe is one of two recipients of the Santley Award in 2024, alongside bass singer Alastair Miles who received the award in May. Miles and Crowe join a long legacy of previous award winners including Cecilia McDowall, Brindley Sherratt, Dame Joan Sutherland, Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Joyce DiDonato, Roderick Williams, Alice Coote OBE and Iestyn Davies MBE.

Receiving her award earlier this month from the Master of the Musicians’ Company Jeff Kelly JP at the Company’s Annual Installation Dinner at Goldsmiths’ Hall, Crowe said: ‘Being awarded the Santley award and to hear the highlights of my career read to me in front of the court was an overwhelming experience. To be able to celebrate my achievements in this way was truly wonderful, and I am very grateful for such an honour.’

Crowe adds this latest award to recent accolades including an OBE in the 2023 King's birthday honours and a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording for Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. In 2021 she also released her debut recital recording for Linn Records featuring Berg, Strauss and Schoenberg.

In 2024-25 she will make her role debut as Malinka/Etherea/Kunka in Janáček's The Excursions of Mr Broucek at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. In concert she is set to perform Mozart arias with the San Francisco Symphony and Bernard Labadie, Brahms German Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, and numerous recitals at Wigmore Hall, as part of her artist focus there this season.