Lucy Cox began her collaboration with pianist Tom Jesty while studying Music at the University of Oxford. She subsequently won a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. Lucy is passionate about equality in music, and she and Tom prioritise the inclusion of women composers in their programming. Last year Lucy gave evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee’s enquiry into misogyny in music, and her advocacy has been featured on BBC South Today and BBC Oxford. Lucy has a busy schedule as a recitalist and concert soloist, and has appeared in venues including the Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, De Singel in Antwerp, St Paul’s Cathedral, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s Southbank Centre. Recent projects have included Dove’s song cycle Ariel at the Wigmore Hall and the Petworth Festival; playing Belinda and First Witch in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Gabrieli Consort, and featuring on a CD of previously unrecorded music by composer Ailsa Dixon for the label Resonus. Next month she will be appearing as a soloist in performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio for Stephen Layton and Polyphony with the Britten Sinfonia.