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 maintains a busy career as a concert soloist. She has performed in several performances directed by Sir John Rutter, including Rutter's Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at St Paul‘s Cathedral, and Mozart‘s Exsultate Jubilate and Rutter‘s Mass for the Children with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Bath Abbey. She has also appeared with Rutter and the Oxford Philharmonic as the Soprano I soloist in Mozart‘s C minor Mass in Oxford‘s Sheldonian Theatre.

A former Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist and finalist in the 2020 John Kerr Award for English Song, Lucy has performed widely across the UK and Europe. 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.

Operatic roles have included the 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 companies including New Chamber Opera, Cantata Dramatica, and Brighton Early Music Festival.​​​​She appears this year as Belinda and First Witch in performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Gabrieli Consort and Players.

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Solo performances in 2026 have so far included Bach's Magnificat and Mendelssohn's Lauda Sion at the Royal Festival Hall; Bach's Christmas Oratorio at Hereford Cathedral with the Hereford Cathedral Choir; and Bach's St John Passion at the Keble Early Music Festival; as well as The Spirit of Love, songs for soprano and string quartet by Ailsa Dixon, with the Villiers Quartet at St George's Bristol.