Miss Lucy Helen Walker

Lucy Walker (b.1998) is quickly establishing her place as one of Britain’s foremost emerging compositional voices.

Originally from the North-East of England, Lucy is now based in Cambridge. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Gonville & Caius College, graduating in 2020 with double first-class honours, and the Sir Rudolph Peters Prize for Excellence in Music, and subsequently in 2021 with the college Graduate Prize for Music. Recognised as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars in 2024, Lucy is gaining repute for her vibrant choral writing, described by Bob Chilcott as ‘full of light, and beautifully crafted’.

In 2022, Lucy was appointed Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, the flagship professional vocal consort based at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, and, alongside, has won numerous high-profile commissions, including writing for the BBC Singers, VOCES8, The Sixteen, various UK Cathedral Choirs, and Anna Lapwood and the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Lucy’s works have been frequently broadcast on national radio, featured on commercial recordings, and are gaining popularity in performance across Europe and the US.

Lucy also works as a music educator, teaching musical analysis, theory and harmony to undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge. Lucy is passionate about making music, especially choral music, accessible and inclusive, and her compositions and teaching work aim to reflect this mission.