Meet UK Choir of the Year’s Founder and Director

Lucy Mitchell

Lucy Mitchell is the founder of UK Choir of the Year, a national UK choir competition created to celebrate musical excellence, inclusivity and the joy of choral singing.

A classically trained musician and award-winning dialogue editor working across major film, television and video game productions, Lucy brings both artistic credibility and professional leadership to this London-based choir competition.

Based on the Surrey–London border, Lucy works as a dialogue editor and sound specialist across high-end television, film and games. Her credits include Boiling Point, First Lady, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. From her studio, LJ Studios, she records actors and crafts dialogue, sound and music for major productions.

Alongside her industry work, Lucy serves as a judge for leading awards including BAFTA Craft, the Broadcast Tech & Innovation Awards and the Women in Film & Television Awards, and regularly guest lectures, speaks on panels, and writes for professional audio publications.

LJ Studios

Music has been central to Lucy’s life from an early age. A music scholar from the age of eight, she studied music at degree level and performed extensively in orchestras, bands and choirs. Her main instruments are flute, voice and piano.

Her background as a classical musician, combined with a deep understanding of musical craft and performance, continues to shape her work in the choral world today and heavily influences her work as a sound engineer.

Lucy sings alto and serves as Events Coordinator for The Adam Street Singers. It was through her experience as both a singer and organiser that the idea for UK Choir of the Year was born.

While searching for the right competition for her own choir, Lucy saw a gap: there was no London-based choir competition that welcomed a broad range of musical styles, balanced musical credibility with inclusivity, and placed equal value on the overall choir experience as well as the competitive element. Rather than compromise, she created one.

UK Choir of the Year exists to bring together choirs of different backgrounds, genres and communities in a setting that is professionally run, musically ambitious and genuinely welcoming.

Lucy’s vision is to build a competition that is respected for its musical standards, inclusive in its approach, and memorable for every choir that takes part — celebrating not only achievement, but the shared experience and power of singing together.