LucieLeguay

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About Lucie

Music Director of Sinfonietta Lausanne

Widely recognsied for her charisma, precision and keen artistic vision, French conductor Lucie Leguay is regularly in demand from the leading orchestras and theatres of the world.

Praised as a conductor who ‘devotes herself to the score with the utmost attention to detail’ (Klassik.com), the 2026/27 season sees Lucie take up the role of Music Director of Sinfonietta Lausanne. She makes her Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra debut and several returns including Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Brussels Philharmonic, Noord Nederlands Orkest and Ensemble Modern.

Lucie led the incredibly successful world premiere production of ACCABADORA at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in summer 2026 and revives it to make her Tiroler Festspiele Erl debut this season. She also returns to Opera Comique for a double bill of Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat and George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill and conducts performances of Carmen Case around France.

In the 2025/26 season Lucie made several major debuts, including with Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic. Returns included Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. She made her German operatic debut with a critically acclaimed new production of Pelleas and Melisandre at Staatsoper Darmstadt.

Also distinguished for her skill with contemporary music, Lucie has worked closely with Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger and Kaija Saariaho, to name a few, and regularly collaborates with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Incontemporain.

Lucie is based in Paris

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Jack Haynes

Jack Haynes

Senior Artist Manager
Martha Howes

Martha Howes

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management: Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Sep 2026
Salle Métropole, Lausanne
Tchaikovsky Polonaise (from Eugene Onegin) Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Entracte Waltz Nina Šenk Shadows of Stillness for Orchestra Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Sinfonietta de Lausanne
Sep 2026
L'Auditorium de l'Opéra, Bordeaux
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Shostakovitch Symphony No. 5 Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine Dmitry Masleev (piano)
Oct 2026
Studio 104 Radio France, Paris
Finalist compositions of the Unanimes! European Composition Competition for female composers Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Nov 2026
Opéra-Comique, Paris
Stravinsky L'Histoire du soldat George Benjamin/Martin Crimp Into the Little Hill Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Feb 2027
Flagey Piano Days, Belgium
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Brussels Philharmonic Jonathan Fournel (piano)
Feb 2027
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki
Berlioz Roman Carneval Overture Daugherty Sundown on South Street from Philadelphia Stories (Finnish premiere) Ortiz Mudejar chilango (Finnish premiere) Gershwin An American in Paris Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Tami Pohjola (violin) Jukka Nykänen (piano)
Jun 2027
Philharmonie, Cologne
Theres - Liederzyklus in fünf Episoden und fünf Kontrapunkten Ensemble Modern Pia Davila (soprano) Julian Prégardien (tenor)
Jul 2027
Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Austria
Fidelei L'Accabadora (Austrian premiere) Orchester der Tiroler Festspiele Erl

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  • Brno Philharmonic

    Brno, Czech Republic
    Feb 2026

    • Lucie Leguay fulfilled expectations to the letter. César Franck's Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra is an interesting work, characterized not only by the unusual role of the piano, but also by its masterful structure, as the three-movement concerto is skillfully concealed in a single musical flow (...) The conductor deserves most of the credit for the precise ensemble playing, dynamic sophistication, and cohesion of the work as a whole. The performance of the Concerto for Orchestra was characterized by excellent interplay and accentuated "French" color, undoubtedly thanks to Lucie Leguay. She captivated with barely audible pianissimos, electrifying tension, the construction of gradations and differentiation of dynamics.

    • Lucie Leguay, like at the beginning of the concert, showed a strong feeling for music and thorough preparation. Together with the musicians, she carefully built all the phrases, played with gradual and abrupt changes of dynamics in an exemplary manner, and all the differences in expression were excellent. Lucie Leguay (…) literally worked magic with the orchestra. We do not often see such energy that the musicians put into their performance at the Brno Philharmonic. It follows that the main star of the evening was clearly the conductor Lucie Leguay. The enthusiasm that she was able to get from the orchestra has not been matched by anyone for a long time. Moreover, the performance of all the works was prepared with absolute precision down to the smallest detail. When a young, ambitious conductor who knows what she wants stands in front of the orchestra, everything suddenly goes as it should. Thursday's concert was one of the best that the Brno Philharmonic has played in recent times. It is undoubtedly the highlight of this season so far. We can only hope that this collaboration between the Brno Philharmonic and Lucie Leguay was not the last.

  • Pelléas et Mélisande

    Staatstheater Darmstadt
    Jan 2026

    • At the podium of the highly attentive, flexible Darmstadt State Orchestra, conductor Lucie Leguay perfectly captures Debussy's tone with the sombre colours of the castle's atmosphere and the sudden brightening when light and air seem to enter for a moment with the high woodwinds. […] she does not relegate the music to an atmospheric backdrop; instead, it becomes the driving force of the drama…

    • Guest conductor Lucie Leguay conveys this superbly with the State Orchestra, which illuminates Debussy's timbres magnificently, yet always sounds light, clear and delicate.

    • Lucie Leguay at the podium devotes herself to the score with the utmost attention to detail and finely tuned to the action on stage.

    • Lucy Leguay, the conductor for the evening, had the task of presenting Debussy not as a stilted mini-Wagner, which is something that happens to many greats in the music world…Orchestrally, everything shone with clear contours and beautiful, muted colours.

  • Clara Olivares: Les Sentinelles

    Opéra Comique
    Apr 2025

    • This harmonization is achieved very well thanks to the careful conducting of a young woman, the talented Lucie Leguay. From the very first bars, she proves to be fundamental to the success of the performance, finding the right balance and colors for each passage.

    • The orchestra, that of the Bordeaux National Opera, accompanies with precision, under the baton of Lucie Leguay.

    • Lucie Leguay conducts the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine with conviction.

    • Lucie Leguay's conducting is notable for its great precision...synchronization must be maintained between the orchestra pit and the animation, the singing, and the recitation.

  • Rossini: The Barber of Seville

    Opéra de Nice
    May 2025

    • the greatest pleasure probably lies in the pit, with the direction of Lucie Leguay...at the head of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor strips down the score, revives its colors, gives it a second wind full of life and dynamism. Armed with her musicians, she creates superb musical reliefs, carrying us away from the first notes of the Overture which already offers a marked intention, sculpted in each note which emerges chiseled, revitalized. Rarely does a direction succeed in so much to enthuse us.

    • The musical direction of Lucie Leguay, conducting the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, is energetic, precise, and airy, ensuring that the action never falters and that the large, brilliant rotary orchestra in the pit runs smoothly.

  • Puccini: Messa di Gloria

    Opera Comedie de Montpellier
    Sep 2024

    • total satisfaction for the musical direction of the young French conductor Lucie Leguay, at once sober, precise and balanced, who gives the Languedoc phalanx the right tone, with a performance leaving an impression of simplicity and obviousness.

  • Stravinsky & Poulenc

    Opera de Nice
    May 2024

    • La direction musicale de Lucie Leguay distille une battue ample, sereine et puissante en même temps. Elle offre à sa phalange cadrage et respiration, ce qui lui permet d’éviter les francs décalages entre la matière dense de la fosse et celle, plus évaporée, du plateau de Poulenc

    • On the podium, Lucie Leguay , with science and art, gave each Caesar what he deserved. From Stravinsky, a slow performance, ethereal at the beginning, well rhythmed from the second scene onwards. This contrasted with his treatment of Francis Poulenc's score that was both wise and also somewhat crazy. She accompanied the chorus prepared by Giulio Magnanini with softness and skill, and alternated moments of great lyricism with others of greater dynamism, all of them with great effect.

    • Au pupitre de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice Lucie Leguay, révélation des Victoires de la Musique Classique 2023, dirige avec un professionnalisme et une précision qui forcent l’admiration deux partitions dont les difficultés stylistiques sont évidentes.

  • Borodin & Tchaikovsky

    Gran Teatro Cordoba, Spain
    Apr 2024

    • Lucie Leguay triumphed with a programme of enormous difficulty in which she confirmed as much courage as her own voice, and with a Cordoba Orchestra that excelled especially in the singular Tchaikovsky.

  • Saint-Saëns, Le Carnaval Des Animaux / Poulenc, Double Concerto

    Album, Alpha Classics
    Jun 2023

    • Conductor Lucie Leguay favours a sharp, incisive approach, and gets a colourful response from the Lille players

    • Leguay gets the balance between urbanity and nostalgia absolutely right.

  • Strauss II, La Chauve-Souris

    Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
    Mar 2022

    • (translation) This is the young conductor's third opera as musical director, and she seems perfectly at ease with the distinctive Viennese style. Her invigorating interpretation, marked by finely executed slowing down and always clear and frank changes of tempo, is fully convincing.

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