Lucas Macias Navarro

Lucas Macías Navarro took up the oboe partly because of his father, who was a fan of Heinz Holliger. He himself was more drawn to the flute, but his father gave him an oboe on his tenth birthday.

Macías Navarro studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Córdoba. At the age of sixteen, he enrolled at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he was accepted into the studio of his father’s idol. He continued his studies at the Herbert von Karajan Academy in Berlin and at the Geneva Conservatory with Maurice Bourgue.

He has won first prize at various international competitions, including that of the Sony Music Foundation in Tokyo, where he was also awarded the special Mozart prize.

Macías Navarro assumed the post of principal oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in December 2007. He teaches at the Zaragoza Conservatory and gives masterclasses. He also holds the positions of first oboist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and of principal oboist of the Orchestra Mozart. As a chamber musician, he performs at all the world’s major festivals.