The Board of Directors of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville (ROSS) has appointed Maestro Lucas Macías (Huelva, 1978) as the new Principal Conductor of the ensemble. His contract will link him to the orchestra for the next three seasons, extendable by two more, with his tenure beginning in September 2025.

Lucas Macías Navarro made his conducting debut at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2014, following an exceptional career as one of the world’s leading oboists. He served as principal oboist for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and was a founding member of the Mozart Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, his mentor, from whom he gained 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 was assistant conductor for two years in close collaboration with Daniel Harding—Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Staatskapelle Dresden, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Het Gelders Orkest, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica del Liceu, and Euskadiko Orkestra, among others.

Since 2018, he has served as the Principal Conductor of the Oviedo Filarmonía and, since 2020, as the Artistic Director of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.

In the 2024–25 season, he will return to the Spanish National Orchestra and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, make his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, conduct Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opera of Oviedo and the zarzuela Marina by E. Arrieta, and collaborate with renowned soloists such as Christian Zacharias, Tabea Zimmermann, István Várdai, Chen Reiss, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Piotr Beczala. His repertoire will include a broad range of works, from Mahler’s Titan Symphony to Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Four Last Songs, as well as works by Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, and oboe concertos by Bach, Marcello, and Mozart, in which he will also perform as a 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 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 trained under Mark Stringer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.