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Lucy Waterhouse, youngest born into a London classically musical family felt destined to be a violinist from her earliest memories. Although she seemed to start her studies quite sensibly (music degree at Cambridge University) she took an early opportunity to escape by doing a post-grad at Indiana University in USA where she headed for the Grand Canyon as soon as school was out, and was then off to the Arctic North of Norway, immediately for her first job. Here she almost became a viking, learning to ski, fish in the midnight sun, climb in the mountains, and narrowly escaped marrying an eskimo. (Ask her Dad about the 500-strong reindeer dowry he was to inherit.....)
After exhausting her musical possibilities in Norway - including a stint in the Opera and Oslo Philharmonic - Lucy came home to London where she free-lances in London's orchestras mostly in the Philharmonia. However, she returns for frequent skiing holidays!
In 2000 Lucy formed Tango Volcano, her own band, after learning to play and dance the tango in Argentina during a 6-week long field trip funded by the Churchill Fellowship. An ambitious friend of her sister's, Bob Edwards thinks he can capture Lucy in celluloid and a TV documentary is being made currently, entitled "Lucy W". Her other hobbies include Triathlon, pottery and wine-making.
She joined the London Tango Orchestra in June 2010