Lucia is a Slovak-born conductor, based in the UK and conducting for the Woking Symphony Orchestra and the City of Southampton Orchestra as their Guest Conductor. Alongside her freelance career, she is also currently coaching young players and singers as the Assistant Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and the Director of the Chapel Choir at St Catherine’s School, Bramley. Lucia conducted the Welsh National Opera Orchestra in a Showcase in May 2023 and the City of London Sinfonia at the Jette Parker Young Artists’ Women Conductors Course at the Royal Opera House in July 2021. She was the Assistant Conductor at the David Seligman Opera School during her studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Jones and assisted James Southall at Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Here, she was also the Musical Director of a semi-staged performance of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale and of a staged production of Handel’s Choice of Hercules. Before that, she was the Musical Director and Producer of Krása’s Brundibár at The Purcell School for Young Musicians in March 2022 and the Musical Director and Co-Producer of an international filmed production of Cui’s Feast in Time of Plague with the Oxford Opera Society in May 2021. During her undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, Lucia founded her own orchestra and worked with a variety of ensembles, including as a Musical Director at the Oxford Contemporary Opera Festival. Her other musical engagements have included: performing as a singer and a conductor of Viktória Šinkorová’s After Dowland at the New Pathways in Improvisation Conference at Middlesex University in 2021, arranging music for the Oxford University Wind Orchestra in 2020 and 2021, and winning national organ competitions in Slovakia in 2013 and 2015.