Lydia Jane Pugh is an award-winning composer from Guernsey, specialising in choral and chamber music with much of her work being inspired by the islands’ history, culture, and beautiful landscapes. Her music’s universal appeal has seen performances by groups around the world including ‘Choral Chameleon’, ’The Great Noise Ensemble’ and ‘The BBC Singers’. Her accolades include being a finalist for the National Centre for Early Music's Young Composer Award (UK), the Australian Boys Choir Choral Composition Competition, and the winner of the Nathan Davis Prize at the Young New Yorker’s Chorus Young Composer Competition, and most recently winner of the Celebris Ensemble Composition Award for 2025. Her music has been recorded commercially, with ’Carolina’s Jig’, featured on the album ‘Division of Memory’ (Thomas Mesa; Navona Records, 2021), and ‘My Hiding Place’ and ‘Adiraï’ featured on Voices of Earth and Air Volume 4 (The Kühn Choir, Navona Records.