Lucy Railton is a British cellist, composer, and curator whose work pushes the edge of electro-acoustic composition. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, appearing on dozens of recordings, and performing at numerous contemporary music festivals and venues, she made her solo debut with the 2018 full-length Paradise 94, a jarring mixture of intensely amplified cello and industrial noise textures.

Railton was trained at the New England Conservatory in Boston as well as the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she graduated in 2008. During the same year, she established the new music series Kammer Klang, and she later co-founded the London Contemporary Music Festival. Her programs present performances of canonical works as well as pieces by emerging and lesser-known composers. Railton has played on recordings by numerous jazz, folk, electronic, and indie rock artists, including Bat for Lashes, Orbital, Bonobo, and Jamie Cullum. She has performed or recorded extensively with Thomas Strønen, Russell Haswell, Sofia Jernberg, and others.

In 2018, Modern Love released Railton's first album, Paradise 94, which included collaborations with artists such as Beatrice Dillon and Kit Downes. She collaborated with Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of the EMS Synthesizer company, on RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer, which was released by PAN in February 2020. Three months later, Railton's improvisational Lament in Three Parts was issued by Cafe Oto's digital label TakuRoku. Her composition Forma was released by Portraits GRM (a collaboration between Austrian experimental label Editions Mego and French electro-acoustic institution INA GRM) as the first side of a split LP with Baltimore-based experimental musician Max Eilbacher. Railton's 2010 performance of Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus by Oliver Messiaen was issued by Modern Love as a benefit recording, with proceeds split between the UN Refugee Agency COVID-19 Appeal and the Grenfell Foundation. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi