Lucy Abrams-Husso is a Chicago native residing in Helsinki, Finland since 2013.  She received Bachelors degrees with High Honors in Clarinet Performance and Anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She completed a second Master of Music from the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2016 and is currently a doctoral candidate in the DocMus program at the Sibelius Academy. Formerly Co-Principal and E-flat clarinet of the Oulu Symphony, Lucy currently freelances in southern Finland, performing with the Lahti Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Finnish Chamber Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, and Pori Sinfonietta. She has been featured as a soloist with the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra, Mikkeli String Orchestra, and Haapavesi Chamber Orchestra. Her teachers include Olli Leppäniemi, Yehuda Gilad, Jon Manasse, Ken Grant, J. David Harris, and Gary Karner.

An orchestral musician with a passion for contemporary music, Lucy's doctoral project focuses on the study of contemporary repertoire for clarinet composed post-1980 by Finnish and American composers. Her first doctoral concert, Imagined Models, took place on November 13, 2018 in Organo Hall at the Helsinki Music Center. Lucy’s second concert, Elollinen, was completed on September 12, 2020. Her third concert was produced by SibaRecords as a double-CD, Duel. The album features all works for clarinet and electronics and is available from Naxos as well as digitally on Spotify and Apple Music. The fourth and final concert, Folk Clarinet, was performed in the Helsinki Music Center on May 22, 2022.

Lucy’s research has been funded by the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity, the Jenni and Antti Wihuri Foundation, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. She was a salaried doctoral researcher at Sibelius Academy from fall 2021 to spring 2024. Lucy is currently a freelance clarinetist and researcher. She also works as a clarinet instructor in the Global Music department at the Sibelius Academy.