2025/2026 marks the beginning of Lucas Macías’ tenure as Chief Conductor of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, marking the start of a new artistic chapter for the Andalusian institution. His first season will include repertoire ranging from Gustav Mahler’s monumental Second and Fifth Symphonies to emblematic works of European symphonism such as Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” and Debussy’s La Mer.

He will also continue his fruitful relationship with the Oviedo Filarmonía, where he has served as Chief Conductor since 2018, and with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, of which he has been Artistic Director since 2020.

Lucas Macías made his conducting debut at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2014 after an exceptional career as one of the world’s leading oboists, having been soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He was a founding member of Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart, under whose mentorship he acquired a profound knowledge and understanding of 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 served as Assistant Conductor for two years, working closely with Daniel Harding— Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Spanish National Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orquestra Simfònica del Liceu, and Euskadiko Orkestra, among others. During the 2025/26 season he will return to the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and the Navarra Symphony Orchestra.

In the operatic field, he has conducted Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute at Ópera de Oviedo, Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment at the Quincena Musical Donostiarra, Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with Carlos Álvarez at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga, and Arrieta’s zarzuela Marina. He has collaborated with singers of the stature of Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Ermonela Jaho, and Javier Camarena, among others.

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 in Geneva with Maurice Bourgue. He won several first prizes, including the International Oboe Competition in Tokyo organized by the Sony Music Foundation in 2006.

As a conductor, he studied with Mark Stringer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.