
Tim Lutton | Royal Philharmonic
About
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 maintains a busy career as a concert soloist, performing regularly in performances directed by Sir John Rutter. Highlights include Rutter's 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. 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.​​​
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This year she appeared as Belinda and First Witch in performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Gabrieli Consort and Players.