26 CENTERBILL • SEPTEMBER 2018
@STRAZ CENTER
SUNDAY, SEP 23, 7:30PM
FERGUSON HALL
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
presents
Lucia Micarelli
LUCIA MICARELLI – Violin / Vocals
NEEL HAMMOND – Violin ZACH DELLINGER – Viola
VANESSA FREEBAIRN-SMITH – Cello LEONARDO AMUEDO – Guitar
IAN WALKER – Bass ROBERT THIES – Piano
Born in Queens, New York, Lucia Micarelli was immersed in the arts by the age of three,
diligently practicing dance, piano and violin. It didn’t take long for Lucia to discover her
passion and greatest talent was the violin, which quickly became her main focus. After
moving to Hawaii at the age of ve, she continued to re ne her skills on the violin with
teachers Kathryn Lucktenberg and Sheryl Shohet, and just a year later at the age of six, Lucia
made her debut as a soloist with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Soon after, she began
frequently appearing on local television shows and in concerts in Hawaii.
At 17, Lucia was accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School of Music’s Pre-College
Division. She studied with the renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay and also took
lessons with Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin and Won-Bin Yim. She combined instruction
with concert appearances at the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and other prominent
international venues. She spent her summers at the Aspen Music Festival, regularly
performing with the orchestra, and won the Violin Concerto Competition in 2000.
At 17, Lucia left Juilliard to attend the Manhattan School of Music, and developed an interest
in non-classical music. She started moonlighting with local jazz and rock bands in New York
clubs, and the following year, toured with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a featured violinist
and concertmaster.
Since then, Lucia’s pro le has continued to soar. She’s been a featured soloist in two of
Josh Groban’s world tours, toured extensively with Chris Botti and was featured in his
Live from Boston PBS special (from which the duet they performed together, “Emmanuel”
has received more than 7 million YouTube views), and was featured in Barbra Streisand’s
2013 international tour. She also released two solo albums, Music From A Farther Room
and Interlude. In 2009, Lucia was cast in the starring role of “Annie” in HBO’s critically
acclaimed series, Treme, which ran for four seasons and won a Primetime Emmy® Award.
Lucia’s rst PBS concert special aired in March 2018 – an eclectic journey through her many
musical in uences – from classical to jazz to traditional ddle music and Americana – all
bound together by her trademark emotional vulnerability and technical wizardry.
More at luciamicarelli.com
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