We are delighted to announce that Lucy Joy Morris has been appointed Director of the RSCM Youth Choir from September 2025.

Lucy Joy is a conductor, music educator, and performer known for her dynamic leadership of choirs and orchestras across the UK. A graduate of Queens’ College, Cambridge, she has worked extensively with youth ensembles, including as Principal Conductor of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain Boys’ Choir (2019–2024). Lucy Joy specialises in training choirs of changing voices and is a regular speaker on strategies for keeping boys singing.

Lucy Joy is Director of Music at Dartford Parish Church, where she directs a distinguished choir of semi-professional choral scholars. She is also Director of Cantate Youth Choirs and Head of Choral Music at Heath Mount School, where she leads the award-winning Bax Choir. Her adult choir, the Abbeydale Singers, was named ‘Choir of the Festival’ at the Isle of Man Festival in 2023.

Hugh Morris, RSCM Director, says: “We are thrilled that Lucy Joy will be leading the Youth Choir forwards into the next stage in its journey. We look forward to working with her to develop the skills of the young people within the choir and to encourage a new generation of music leaders, as part of our commitment to the flourishing of church music.”

Find out more about RSCM Youth Choir HERE.