Lucy Cox

Lucy Cox is a British soprano whose work spans concert, chamber, opera and contemporary music. She performs regularly as a soloist with leading choirs, orchestras and period-instrument ensembles, appearing at venues including Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, St Paul’s Cathedral, and the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Lucy works regularly with Sir John Rutter, performing his Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at St Paul’s Cathedral, as well as Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate and Rutter’s Mass of the Children with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Bath Abbey. She has also performed Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Oxford Philharmonic in the Sheldonian Theatre under his direction. In December 2026 she appears at the Royal Albert Hall as the soloist in Sir John Rutter's Christmas Celebration with Rutter, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Bach Choir.
Her repertoire ranges from Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart to contemporary music. Recent projects have included Jonathan Dove’s Ariel with ORA Singers, Ailsa Dixon’s The Spirit of Love with the Villiers Quartet, and Bach’s Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, St Matthew Passion and St John Passion. Her recording of Dixon’s music with the Villiers Quartet was released by Resonus Classics in 2026.
Lucy has also performed extensively in opera and early music. Operatic roles have included Belinda and First Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, which she performs regularly with the Gabrieli Consort & Players, as well as title roles in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Semele, Scarlatti’s La Giuditta, Cavalli’s La Calisto and Cyril Rootham’s Andromeda.
In March 2027 Lucy returns to Wigmore Hall as Soprano I in Johann Theile’s St Matthew Passion with Fretwork, directed by Richard Boothby.
Lucy read Music at the University of Oxford before winning a scholarship for postgraduate study at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. She was a Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist and a finalist in the 2020 John Kerr Award for English Song.