French conductor, Lucie Leguay continues to establish herself with leading orchestras and theatres of the world with a string of major debuts throughout the 25/26 season, including with Orchestre Symphonique Montréal, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and Brno Philharmonic. Returns include Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie and Ensemble Modern.

This follows Lucie’s successful 24/25 season which saw her debut with Orchestre National de France, and Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie and return to Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She performs regularly in Het Concertgebouw with Noord Nederlands Orkest and has appeared with Orchestre de Paris, WDR Sinfonieorchester, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Capitole de Toulouse, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Nürnberger Symphoniker and Orchestre National de Lyon.

In 2025/26 Lucie makes her German operatic debut leading a new production of Pelleas and Melisandre at Staatsoper Darmstadt and last season made her Opera Comique debut leading a world premiere production of Clara Olivares ‘Les Sentinelles’ with additional performances in Bordeaux and Limoges. She also stepped in to conduct a new production of ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ at Opera de Nice, having made her debut in the 2023/24 season with a critically acclaimed double bill of Poulenc’s ‘Les Mamelles de Tiresias’ and Stravinksy’s ‘Le Rossignol’. Lucie also led a revival of Carmen Case with performances around France and Luxembourg.

Lucie is a skilled conductor of contemporary music and has worked closely with Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger and Kaija Saariaho, to name a few, and regularly collaborates with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Incontemporain.

In 2023 Lucie was awarded the Victoires de la Musique Classique “Révélation Conductor”. In 2019 she was selected as assistant conductor at the Verbier Festival in 2019 collaborating with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Lahav Shani, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Klaus Makela and Daniel Harding. For 3 years she assisted Mikko Franck at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Lucie was trained by Jean-Sébastien Béreau and holds a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, studying under Aurélien Azan Zielinski.