Lígia Pucci

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Lígia Pucci

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Lígia Pucci (they/them) is an educator, conductor and pianist from São Paulo, Brazil.  Lígia currently serves as choir and conducting instructor at Northeastern Illinois University, and as Associate Artistic Director of Windy City Performing Arts in Chicago, one of the founding GALA choruses.

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.

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, as well as orchestral conducting with Dr. David Rahbee.

Conductor, Educator