Italian clarinetist Lucia Porcedda was one of the PHILHARMONIA MMSF Instrumental Woodwind Fellow for 2024–2025. She has performed with renowned orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, English National Opera, English National Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Chromatica Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and Sinfonia Cymru.
She was on trial for the Associate Principal Clarinet position with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and served as clarinetist with Sinfonia Smith Square (formerly Southbank Sinfonia) during the 2022/2023 season.
After graduating with honours from the Conservatoire of her hometown, Cagliari (Italy), she continued her studies with Alessandro Carbonare at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and later with Paul Meyer, Christelle Pochet, and Carjez Gerretsen in Paris. Over the years, she has taken part in masterclasses around the world with distinguished musicians including Romain Guyot, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Calogero Palermo, Hermann Stefánsson, Florent Héau, Michel Lethiec, and Andrew Marriner.
Her concert appearances have taken her to venues across the UK, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands. In 2022, she completed her Master’s degree with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Christopher Richards, Timothy Lines, Benjamin Mellefont, Chi-Yu Mo, and Laurent Ben Slimane.
Lucia has always nurtured a deep passion for chamber music. In Italy, she founded Duo Motum with pianist Federico Battista Melis, with whom she has performed at the Vatican Museums in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lausanne (Switzerland), and at music festivals across Sardinia.
She also collaborates regularly with the association Dimensione Danza, working with choreographers and dancers to create and present performances that explore the relationship between sound and movement.
In 2024, she completed the Artist Diploma course at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Peter Sparks, Richard Hosford, and Paul Richards. During her time at the RCM, she was a Hogwood Scholar and was selected as one of the fellows in the BBC Symphony Orchestra Pathway Scheme for 2023/2024.
