Lucia Birzer
Lucia Birzer has been engaged as choir director and conductor at the Regensburg Theatre since the 24/25 season, where she will conduct the productions Der Kleine Prinz and I Am What I Am as well as Candide and Die Reise zum Mond. She previously worked as a choral director with conducting duties at the Hof Theatre from 2022 to 2024, where she also held musical direction and post-conducting positions.
She was one of three finalists for the German Prize for Choral Conducting (Forum Dirigieren/ Deutscher Musikrat) with the RIAS Kammerchor in October 2024 and was a finalist at the 1st Hugo Alfvén International Conducting Competition in Falun, Sweden. In 2024, she was accepted into the second funding stage and thus into the artist list of the Conducting Forum (German Music Council), where she has been a scholarship holder since 2022.
Lucia studied choral conducting with Prof Jürgen Puschbeck at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and completed a semester abroad with Prof Fredrik Malmberg at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Prior to this, she completed a bachelor's degree in choral conducting with Prof. Michael Gläser and studied school music at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich. She took part in masterclasses with Frieder Bernius, Martyn Brabbins, Claire Levancher, Florian Helgath, Florian Ludwig, Georg Grün, Nicholas Fink and Oliver Weder.
Lucia studied with choirs such as the WDR Radio Choir, ChorWerk Ruhr, the Saarbrücken Chamber Choir, the Audi Youth Choir Academy and the Erfurt Philharmonic Choir. She has gained orchestral conducting experience in rehearsals and concerts with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Dalasinfonietta Orchestra (Sweden), the Lüneburg Symphony Orchestra, the Thüringen-Philharmonie Gotha, the Thüringer Symphoniker Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and the Jönköpings Sinfonietta (Sweden).
In addition to her main profession, the conductor is developing a strong creative output as a composer. In 2024, she was one of three winners of the Bavarian Composition Prize, awarded by the via-nova-chor, and in 2023 one of her compositions won first prize in the FemalesFeatured competition organised by the Baden-Württemberg Choir Academy. She has several works published by the renowned Carus-Verlag and regularly writes commissioned works for independent ensembles, choirs and theatres. In the field of composing, she was inspired by a masterclass with Erik Esenvalds, among others.
