About
Lucinda Cox | soprano
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British soprano Lucinda Cox read Music at St Peter’s College Oxford, before winning a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, where she studied with Anthony Rooley and Evelyn Tubb. Lucinda now enjoys a busy career of solo and small ensemble work.
Lucinda is a former Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist, and was a finalist in the cancelled 2020 John Kerr Award for English Song. She has performed as a soloist at venues including the Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, Cadogan Hall, St George’s Bristol, Oxford’s Holywell Music Room, and the Vienna Konzerthaus, appearing with ensembles including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Villiers Quartet, the Monteverdi String Band, Orkiestra Historyczna, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and the Hanover Band.
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.
Solo engagements in 2023 included Rutter's Requiem with the RPO and the Bach Choir conducted by the composer at St Paul's Cathedral; Sebastiani’s Matthew Passion at the Wigmore Hall with viol consort Fretwork; Bach’s Matthew Passion in Derby Cathedral; Bach's B minor mass in Dorchester Abbey and Hereford Cathedral; Handel's Solomon at Oxford's Town Hall; and Haydn's Creation at Milton Abbey.
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Lucinda enjoys performing with ensembles and vocal consorts including the Sixteen, the BBC Singers, Sansara, Fieri Consort, London Voices and The Tallis Scholars, with whom she has performed in Taiwan, Germany (including at the Elbphilharmonie) and across the USA. She is a member of the Choir of the Brompton Oratory, directed by Patrick Russill.
"Lucinda Cox made a particular impression, with her clear, focused tone... she shone in her solo arias, duetting gracefully with the obbligato flute and two oboi da caccia"
Classical Music Daily, March 2023