Lucas Macías
Navarro

Lucas Macías Navarro debuted as conductor in the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2014 following an exceptional career as one of the world’s finest oboists. He was Principal Oboe of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and founding member of the Mozart Orchestra alongside his mentor Claudio Abbado.

He began his musical studies at the age of nine and was later accepted into Heinz Holliger’s oboe class at the University of Freiburg. He continued his training at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, and then in Geneva with Maurice Bourgue. He won several first prizes including the Sony Music Foundation Tokyo International Oboe Competition in 2006. As a conductor, he trained with Mark Stringer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

In previous seasons he has conducted the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre de Paris –where he was assistant conductor for two years in close collaboration with Daniel Harding– Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Staatskapelle Dresden, Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Het Gelders Orkest, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and the Euskadiko Orkestra, among others.

He has been principal conductor of the Oviedo Filarmonía since 2018 and artistic director of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada since 2020. In the 2024-25 season he will return to conduct the Orquesta Nacional de España, the Sinfónica de Tenerife, and will make his debut with the Orchestra Sinfónica di Milano, he will conduct the production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Oviedo Opera and the zarzuela Marina by E. Arrieta. He will collaborate with soloists such as Christian Zacharias, Tabea Zimmermann, István Várdai, Chen Reiss, Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala in a wide symphonic repertoire, from Mahler’s ‘Titan’ Symphony to Strauss’ A Heroe’s Life and Four Last Songs, Tchaikovsky and Dvořák, or the Bach, Marcello and Mozart Oboe Concertos, which he will also perform as soloist.