Lucy Joy Morris

Lucy Joy Morris is a conductor, music educator, and performer, renowned for her dynamic leadership of choirs and orchestras across the UK. A graduate of Queens’ College, Cambridge, she has worked extensively with leading ensembles, including serving as Principal Conductor of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain Boys’ Choir from 2019 to 2024.

As Director of Music at Hertford College, Oxford, Lucy Joy conducts the Chapel Choir and Hertford Orchestra and leads the Hertford Conducting Programme, which trains student conductors in all aspects of musical leadership. Lucy Joy is also Director of the RSCM Youth Choir, and Director of Music at Dartford Parish Church, where she leads a distinguished choir of semi-professional choral scholars. Her adult choir, the Abbeydale Singers, was named Choir of the Festival at the Isle of Man Festival 2023.

She is much in demand nationwide as a choral leader, adjudicator, and speaker, with particular expertise in leading youth choirs and working with changing voices.