Lucy Cox | soprano

British soprano Lucy Cox read Music at Oxford before winning a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland.

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Lucy now enjoys a busy schedule as a concert soloist, and performs regularly in performances directed by Sir John Rutter. These have included his Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at St Paul‘s Cathedral, Haydn’s Creation with Choir of the Earth, and Mozart‘s Exsultate Jubilate and Rutter‘s Mass for the Children with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Bath Abbey, as well as a performance of Mozart‘s C minor Mass in Oxford‘s Sheldonian Theatre with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lucy is a former Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist, and was a finalist in the 2020 John Kerr Award for English Song. She has appeared as a soloist at the Wigmore Hall performing songs for unaccompanied soprano from Jonathan Dove’s song cycle Ariel and in Sebastiani‘s Matthew Passion with viol ensemble Fretwork, as well as at the Vienna Konzerthaus with baroque ensemble Fair Oriana.

She has sung title roles in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Handel’s Semele, Cyril Rootham’s Andromeda, Scarlatti's La Giuditta, and Cavalli's La Calisto, for Brighton Early Music Festival, Cantata Dramatica, and New Chamber Opera.​​​ This year she is appearing as Belinda and First Witch in performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Gabrieli Consort and Players as part of their ROAR programme.