Margaret Lucy Wilkins facts for kids

Lucy Wilkins (born 13 November 1939) is an English music educator and composer. She is well-known for creating operas and other musical pieces.

About Lucy Wilkins

Margaret Lucy Wilkins was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England. She started composing music when she was just twelve years old!

She studied music composition at Trinity College of Music in London. Later, she continued her studies at the University of Nottingham. She earned her music degrees there. Her musical works have been performed in many countries around the world. These include places like Brazil, China, France, Italy, the UK, and the US.

Wilkins also taught music to students. She taught music theory and piano in St. Andrews from 1964 to 1976. Then, she lectured about composing music and women in music at the University of Huddersfield from 1976 to 2003. She also taught at Queen's University in Belfast for a short time in 1995.

She helped start the Scottish Early Music Consort in 1969. Later, she founded a new music group called Polyphonia in 1989. She was the music director for this group from 1989 to 1993. Lucy Wilkins has also been a member of important music organizations. She wrote a book called Creative Music Composition: The Young Composer's Voice in 2006. This book helps young people learn how to compose music.

Awards and Recognition

Lucy Wilkins has received several awards for her musical talents:

• She won First Prize in the Young Composers Competition of the New Cantata Orchestra of London in 1970. This was for her piece called Concerto Grosso.
• She received The Scottish Arts Council Award for Composers in 1970.
• She won The Cappiani Prize for Women Composers in 1971 for her work The Silver Casket.
• In 1973, she won First Prize in a competition for teaching music in Halifax. This was for her piece Instrumental Interludes.

Musical Works

Lucy Wilkins has composed many different kinds of music. She has written pieces for the stage, for orchestras, and for smaller groups of instruments (chamber music). She has also written music for choirs, singers, piano, organ, harpsichord, and electronic sounds.

Here are some of her selected musical works:

• Concerto Grosso
• The Silver Casket
• Instrumental Interludes
• Aspects of Night
• Deux ex Machina
• Gitanjali
• Discover Oakwell
• Suite for Two (for violin and viola, 1968)
• Struwwelpeter (1973)
• Burnt Sienna: Etude for String Trio (1974)
• Lest We Forget (1979)
• A Dance to the Music of Time (1979)
• 366 for Solo Trombone (1986)
• Symphony (1989)
• Musica Angelorum (1991)
• Rituelle (1999)
• Trompettes de Mort (2003)