Lucas Macías Navarro

BIOGRAPHY

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Lucas Macías Navarro debuted as conductor in the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2014 following an exceptional carer 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, with whom he acquired a profound insight into both chamber and symphonic repertoire.

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.

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.

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Lucas Macías Navarro debutó como director en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires en 2014 tras una excepcional carrera como uno de los principales oboístas del mundo, siendo solista de la Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra y Lucerne Festival Orchestra y miembro fundador de la Orquesta Mozart de Claudio Abbado, mentor junto al que adquirió un profundo conocimiento y comprensión tanto del repertorio camerístico, como del sinfónico.

En anteriores temporadas ha dirigido a la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Sueca, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre de Paris -donde fue director asistente durante dos años y en estrecha colaboración con Daniel Harding- Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Staatskapelle Dresde, Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Het Gelders Orkest, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia o Euskadiko Orkestra, entre otras.

Es director titular de la Oviedo Filarmonía desde 2018 y director artístico de la Orquesta Ciudad de Granada desde 2020.  

En la temporada 2024.25 regresará a la Orquesta Nacional de España, la Sinfónica de Tenerife, debutará en la Orchestra Sinfónica di Milano,  dirigirá la producción de Le Nozze di Figaro de Mozart en la ópera de Oviedo y la zarzuela Marina de E. Arrieta, colaborará con solistas como Christian Zacharias, Tabea Zimmermann, István Várdai, Chen Reiss, Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala abordando un amplio repertorio sinfónico, desde la Sinfonía “Titán” de Mahler a Una vida de héroe y las Cuatro últimas canciones de Strauss, Chaikovski y Dvořák, o los conciertos para oboe de Bach, Marcello y Mozart de los que también será intérprete. 

Comenzó sus estudios musicales a los nueve años y más tarde fue aceptado en la clase de oboe de Heinz Holliger en la Universidad de Friburgo. Continuó su formación en la Academia Karajan de la Filarmónica de Berlín, y en Ginebra con Maurice Bourgue. Ganó varios primeros premios incluyendo el Concurso Internacional de Oboe de Tokio de la Fundación Sony Music en 2006.

Como director, se formó con Mark Stringer en la Universidad de Música y Artes Escénicas de Viena.  

AGENDA

 
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It is a big treat to listen to the well-known piece in this fragile version in which each single voice is equally important, even though you need musicians of a very high level to make this adventure successful. In the hands of Camerata RCO, led by Lucas Macías Navarro, it is a breath-taking experience.
— HET PAROOL, MARCH 2018, RCO
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Lucas Macías considered Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 2 as an exercise in pure, naked music, attentive to sounding like an aesthetic search for abstraction. He was able to amalgamate the interventions of the soloists, certainly all magnificent, with the orchestral part while they played a leading role in the overall construction of the work. Transparency, clairvoyance and a variety of textures marked this version. [...] And those approaches of Macías served to fructify with forcefulness a universe in which the different states of mind were reflected, from guilt to the liberation of it, and in between the disturbing passages, which here so naked sounded very effective, and the expressive response contained.
— AGUSTÍN ACHUCARRO, CODALARIO, APRIL 2018, OSCYL
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