Lígia Pucci

Lígia Pucci

College of Arts and Sciences

Instructor

Email:  l-puccidecarvalho@neiu.edu
Office Hours:  TBD

NEIU Choir

Research Interests

Choral Music

Education

B.M., São Paulo State Conservatory 
M.M. in Choral Conducting, University of Washington - Seattle

Background

Lígia Pucci is an educator, conductor and pianist from São Paulo, Brazil. She began her music studies as a pianist at the São Paulo State Conservatory under the tutelage of Daniel Matos. Pucci graduated in 2019 as a teaching fellow with a masters degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied choral conducting with Drs. Geoffrey Boers and Giselle Wyers.

Lígia’s creative output is broad-reaching, stemming from an eclectic background. After immigrating to the United States, they have served as music director at the Florida Repertory Theater, assistant conductor while a student at Florida Gulf Coast University, assistant conductor at The Choir School at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, and music director for the Das Blumelein Project in Dallas; as a pianist, Lígia is passionate about collaborative work and championing new music by living composers, having collaborated with Duo Scordatura and Syzygy in the premiere of new works.