biography

Lucy Croasdale is a performer, composer, and educator originally from Madison, WI. She is a multi-instrumentalist who enjoys playing many different genres of music. While her main focus is saxophone performance (both jazz and classical), she also has a passion for pedagogy and composition/arranging. Lucy has created and led a beginner’s jazz workshop back in September 2021 – March 2022 and was commissioned to compose a jazz big band chart for the 2022 Fred Sturm Jazz Celebration Weekend at Lawrence University.

Also, while playing baritone saxophone with the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE), the group won the 2023 Outstanding Performance award for Large Jazz Ensemble – Undergraduate College category. In March 2024, she premiered a saxophone quartet concerto, Second Nature by Viet Coung, with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble (UTWE) and also played in UTWE’s 50th anniversary Carnegie Hall performance in NYC. She now teaches private lessons in the Austin area.

Lucy Croasdale holds a Master’s in Music Performance at The University of Texas at Austin where she studied with Dr. Stephen Page and a Bachelor of Music Performance with a Jazz Emphasis from Lawrence University where she studied with Steven Jordheim and Jose Encarnacion.