Lucia Micarelli is a violinist, vocalist, and actor celebrated for her emotional depth, technical brilliance, and singular ability to transcend musical boundaries. Born in Queens, New York, to a Korean mother and an Italian American father, she debuted as a soloist with the Honolulu Symphony at age 6 and entered the pre-college division of The Juilliard School at 11, studying with the legendary Dorothy DeLay. Further training with Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music followed — and from there, the world’s great stages: Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Madison Square Garden.
Her path has been anything but conventional. After tours with Josh Groban, Barbra Streisand, Chris Botti, and Jethro Tull brought her to global audiences, Micarelli stepped into the spotlight on her own terms. Her performance of Emmanuel with Botti and the Boston Pops became a viral sensation watched by millions, and her 2018 PBS special, An Evening with Lucia Micarelli—spanning Irish jigs, Ravel, Gershwin, and Led Zeppelin in a single evening—announced an artist fully, joyfully impossible to categorize. The Wall Street Journal called her “a violinist of heart-melting talent.” The Washington Post noted her “dazzling skills and a Mona Lisa smile.”
On screen, she brought the same magnetism to HBO’s Treme, playing a violinist finding her footing in post-Katrina New Orleans — a performance Esquire honored by calling her “the woman who makes Treme worth watching.” She later led Hallmark’s The Christmas Bow, and has most recently moved into composition, scoring HBO’s Murder in Boston and an upcoming Amazon Prime documentary on Novak Djokovic.
Six albums in and still expanding, Micarelli remains driven by a simple but profound conviction: that music, at its best, dissolves the distances between us. Her newest project, Anthropology, carries that belief into bold new territory — a genre-spanning journey through classical and folk traditions that finds, in all of them, the same beating human heart.