Lucía was born in Jalapa, México, to a musical Mexican-Polish family. She started to take private violin lessons at the age of four and was performing as a soloist at eleven years old in Mexico as well as in Belgium (Europalia ’93). In 1997 she won first prize in the “Hermilo Novelo V Nacional Violin Competition” in Mexico City.
Lucía has performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Queretaro, Philharmonic Orchestra of Acapulco, Mexico, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She played the European première of the Concert-Poeme for Violin and Orchestra Birth, Life and Death of a Being composed by her father Ryszard Siwy in 1992. Lucía is also a founding member of the Kaxan String Quartet, highly commended at the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize in 2009, enjoying performances in the UK and a recent tour to the Middle East.
Lucía studied at the Faculty of Music at the University of Veracruz as well as at the Music School of the SEC, both in Xalapa, Ver., Mexico, with Professors Stanislaw Kawalla, Agnieszka Maklakiewic and Erasmo Capilla. She graduated in 2007 from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and in 2009 with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London (Master of Arts) studying under Professor Igor Petrushevski. She was awarded the FONCA scholarship from the Mexican Government and the Veracruz State’s Government scholarship in Mexico to support her studies in the UK. Lucía has also studied with Professors Andrzej Siwy, Robert Kabara, Zino Vinnikov and attended master classes with Professor Sergey Kravchenko.
Lucía has recently performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin & viola in E flat major at a Rush Hour Concert, conducted by Stephen Barlow.
