Lucy Railton

Berlin based cellist Lucy Railton has been an active performer and composer for over a decade, releasing albums on the labels Modern Love, Editions Mego – GRM Portraits, PAN (with Peter Zinovieff), ECM, SN Variations, Shelter Press and Takuroku.

She scored her first feature film, “False Positive” (A24/Hulu) together with Yair Elazar Glotman in 2021 and has previously contributed as both performer and composer to Philippe Parreno’s films ‘Li Yan‘ (2016) and ‘No More Reality’ (Luma Foundation 2021) in collaboration with sound designer and recordist Nicolas Becker (Sound of Metal) and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman). She also worked with Becker on the score of ‘Earth Water Sky’ by Emma Critchley at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and in the same exhibition worked with Soundwalk Collective on the installation: ‘A Roof For Silence’ by the Lebanese architect Hala Wardé, as cellist and writer.

Railton has also composed for the dance productions ‘Everything that rises must dance’ (Complicité, London) and Akram Khan’s ‘Gnosis’ in which she also toured world wide as composer/performer. In 2019 she was commissioned by Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) to compose for the Acousmonium installed at Maison de la Radio, Paris and also for the John Giorno exhibition at Geneva Contemporary.   Since training at the Royal Academy of Music in London she has cut a distinct path of her own, engaging with a range of interdisciplinary collaborations including those with Rebecca Salvadori, Catherine Lamb, Beatrice Dillon and Kali Malone, and contributing to projects that highlight the work of Maryanne Amacher, Alvin Lucier and Pauline Oliveros to name a few. Railton also established the 10 year long new music series Kammer Klang at Cafe Oto and co-founded and co-directed the London Contemporary Music Festival from 2013-2016.