Lucy Joy Morris

Lucy grew up in Berkshire and went on to study music at Queens’ College, Cambridge where she won the Beament Prize for outstanding musical performance. There, she conducted two university orchestras as Assistant Conductor for the University Music Society, and sang with Trinity College Choir.

Lucy is a passionate music educator and conducts a number of local, county and national choirs. She has conducted the National Youth Choir of Great Britain Boys’ Choir since January 2018 and was appointed Principal Conductor in 2019. She is also a section coach for the National Youth Choirs of Scotland.

In addition to the Abbeydale Singers, Lucy is Director of Cantate Youth Choirs and Head of Choral Music at Heath Mount School where she conducts the multi-award winning ‘Bax Choir’. As Director of Music at Dartford Parish Church, she conducts the choir of semi-professional choral scholars. Lucy regularly runs singing workshops and conducts hundreds of children in annual singing festivals for massed primary schools around the UK. As an orchestral conductor, Lucy has conducted the Warwick University Symphony Orchestra since 2020.