Assistant Professor
D.M.A., The University of Iowa
Office: 815-753-7580
E-mail: lmatos@niu.edu
Web: http://www.luciamatos.com
Brazilian-born conductor Lucia Matos is the director of the NIU Philharmonic and music director of the Opera Workshop. She has appeared with numerous orchestras in the US and abroad and her first commercially distributed CD, with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, was released in 2007 by Cala Records. Also intensively involved with opera, Lucia Matos has conducted several productions at Opera Illinois and was a semi-finalist at the 2007 Bela Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition.
Dr. Matos studied conducting with Henrique Gregori at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and after graduating she was assistant conductor for two professional orchestras in Brazil (Sinfonica Municipal de Campinas and Orquestra da UNICAMP). In 1998 she was awarded a fellowship to continue her studies in the United States. She received a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Iowa, studying with William LaRue Jones. From 2003 to 2008, Lucia Matos was the orchestra director at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.