Shoreham Oratorio Choir 1961-2026
Lucia is a Slovak-born conductor, based in the UK and 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. Facebook
In October 2024 the 65 singers of Shoreham Oratorio Choir were delighted to appoint Lucia as their Musical Director.
In her first two terms with SOC, Lucia produced a sell out 2024 Christmas Concert, featuring Vivald's " Gloria" and excerpts from Handel's " Messiah".
This was followed up by a tremendous double bill for the 2025 Easter Concert, of Schubert's Mass in G and Charles Gounod's iconic "St Cecilia Mass"
November 2025, Lucia led Shoreham Oratorio in a wonderful benefit concert to raise funds for St Mary De Haura, conducting the iconic "Faure Requiem".
Christmas 2025 under Lucia's guidance, Shoreham Oratorio sang Bach's Christmas Oratorio Part 1, plus pieces from Rutter, Darke, Hess, and Holst.
Easter 2026 saw Lucia's most ambitious project yet, working wonders with Shoreham Oratorio to produce a thrilling, powerful and dramatic performance of Anton Dvorak's "Stabat Mater".
In August 2024 Lucia won the audience prize, a particularly coveted distinction, for her captivating interpretation of the overture to Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." The last conductor to perform, she won over the audience with a vibrant and energetic performance in the compettion at the René d'Anjou Cultural Centre, France.
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.
Lucia was the Assistant Conductor at the David Seligman Opera School in 2022-23, and the Musical Director of Krása’s Brundibár in March 2022 and of an international filmed production of Cui’s Feast in Time of Plague in May 2021.
