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The English soprano, Lucy (Lucinda) Cox, studied Music at the University of Oxford, where she held a choral scholarship. She completed her Masters degree at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, where she studied with Anthony Rooley and Evelyn Tubb. She currently studies with Gary Coward. She is a finalist in the 2020 John Kerr Award for English Song and a 2019-2020 Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist.
Lucy Cox 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 W.A. Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and John Rutter's Mass for the Children with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Bath Abbey. She will be joining John Rutter and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra again in April 2025 for a performance of W.A. Mozart's C minor Mass in Oxford‘s Sheldonian Theatre.
Lucy Cox 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 George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, G.F. Handel’s Semele, Cyril Rootham’s Andromeda for Cantata Dramatica (June 2019), Felicitas in Nick Bicât’s Perpetua for Cantata Dramatica (Early 2020), Alessandro Scarlatti's La Giuditta, and Cavalli's La Calisto, for Brighton Early Music Festival, Cantata Dramatica, and New Chamber Opera. She also performed songs by Ailsa Dixon at St George’s Bristol with the Villiers Quartet, and appeared as a soloist with the Monteverdi String Band at LSO St Luke’s in London. In 2025 she will appear as Belinda and First Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Gabrieli Consort & Players as part of their ROAR programme.
Lucy Cox also enjoys performing with small choirs and vocal consorts including The Sixteen (Director: Harry Christophers), BBC Singers (Director: Sofi Jeannin), London Voices (Director: Terry Edwards) and Fieri Consort (Artistic Director: Hannah Ely). She has toured extensively with early music ensemble The Tallis Scholars (Director: Peter Phillips), performing across the USA and Europe, and in Taiwan, Singapore and China. She is a member of The Marian Consort (Director: Rory McCleery) and ORA Singers, and has performed internationally with ensembles including the Rundfunkchor Berlin, and Gabrieli Consort. She is a member of the Choir of the Brompton Oratory, directed by Patrick Russill KSG. She loves the outdoors, and escapes London whenever possible to spend time in the countryside. |
