I really love working with you, Lucy. I value your skills more than you'll ever know.

Key skills:

• High-level, sought-after utility session musician (violin/fiddle, keys, vocals)
• Awarded string arranger/composer: I've written the arrangements for many Australian Music Prize-nominated and Music Victoria Award-winning releases
• Grant writer and grant-writing mentor: 10+ years of expertise as a professional grant-writer; has won/managed/acquitted grants of up to $1M for her clients

Lucy Rash, known professionally as Lucy G. Rash is a renowned string arranger/composer, violinist, multi-instrumentalist (keys, vocals) and creative programmer whose skills effortlessly traverse the space between defined genres. Her compositions, string arrangements and playing feature on records by Australian Music Prize-nominated, ARIA-nominated and Music Victoria Award-winning artists (Watty Thompson, Georgia State Line, Fenn Wilson, and others) and she is the go-to utility session player of legendary Australian artists such as Ella Hooper, Smith Street Band, Jae Laffer (The Panics), Jess Locke, and more.

Classically trained and cutting her teeth touring, performing and recording with a variety of celebrated Australian acts, Lucy developed a strong foundation in music theory, arrangement and compositional approaches. In the role of Education Manager at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, she was responsible for a wide range of collaborations spanning the organisation’s diverse work with Melbourne's young and emerging musician community. The culmination of this work was her co-production and programming of MSO’s 2018 Education Week centrepiece, Incongruous - a concert exploring the use of humour and narrative in music, co-produced with legendary Australian comedy trio, Tripod. 

Lucy also held the position of Advisor Writer and Commissioner with Sydney Symphony Orchestra (2022-23) and in 2019 received her Master of Teaching (Primary/Secondary) from Deakin University. She worked as a Classroom Teacher (Music/Humanities) at Caulfield Grammar from 2020 to 2022, and now utilises her teaching expertise in her work as a grant writer and grant-writing mentor. With over 10 years of professional expertise, she has won, managed and acquitted grants of up to $1M for her clients, and teaches others how to do the same.

From her studio as Resident Artist, Gasworks Arts Park (Albert Park, Victoria), Lucy produces sought-after compositions and string arrangements for bands, live performance, film and exhibition. She has performed her works at renowned Australian venues and festivals including Sydney Opera House (Vivid LIVE), Meredith Music Festival (with Watty Thompson), A Day on the Green (with Ella Hooper supporting Chris Isaak and James Taylor), and Melbourne Recital Centre, the latter involving the writing/performing a suite of nine commissioned string trio arrangements for ARIA-nominated country band, Georgia State Line.

Lucy was awarded a prestigious 2023 APRA AMCOS Women in Music Mentorship undertaken with founder of Music Production for Women, Xylo Aria. In May 2024, she was then announced as one of 21 mentors available to mentees for the next evolution of the same program, newly titled “The 23% Mentorship” for women and gender-diverse Australian musicians and creatives.

Lucy’s work is unified by a love of great melodies and sophisticated,  intricately structured arrangements - no matter what the style of music. To this end, her work writing, recording and touring with her own punk/power pop project, Raging Hormones (with Nick Manuell of Bodyjar/The Sinking Teeth, Joel Loukes, Dave Williams and Adrian Van Bloom) sits comfortably alongside ongoing collaborations with her dear friend, Watty Thompson - Australia’s contemporary bush balladeer and rising star of the country music community.

As Deputy Editor for CutCommon (Australia's leading online street press magazine for classical music), Lucy helped CutCommon achieve a nomination for the prestigious international 2017 Classical:NEXT Innovation Award.

With additional skills in high-level artist management (Operations/Artist Liaison roles at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), programming, scheduling, co-ordination, tour management, and more, Lucy is a supremely talented, all-rounder addition to any creative team for which she is engaged. 

Alongside her work as a high-level operator in the Australian music scene, Lucy proudly continues her work bolstering the brands of both artists and creative businesses as Director of her arts-focused communications/content agency, Cult Copy.