Lucia G. Westin
College of the Holy Cross
United States

Lucia Westin has been a resident of St. John's, Newfoundland since the age of ten. She was involved in the Newfoundland musical scene from a young age, including SHALLAWAY - Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus, the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Orchestra, St. Bonaventure's College Wind Ensemble and Treble Choir, and (of course!), Festival 500. Lucia moved from St. Johns to study for her undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Both in Worcester and during her year studying abroad in Strasbourg, France, she pursued her passion for music with her studies both in and outside of university. She has had the opportunity to study with composers such as Osvaldo Goliov and Shirish Korde, violinists Alisdair Black, Alison Black, and Peter Sulski, and voice instructors including Elizabeth Keusch, Sarah Dewald and Marsha Vleck. During the summer of 2012 Lucia received a Mellon Summer Research Grant to study Tunisian music and the recent Tunisian revolution of 2011. She spent five and a half weeks in Tunisia and completed her research at the College of the Holy Cross, all under the direction of her music professor, Alan Karass. In May 2013, she graduated with a BA in music and French. She will begin studies in law at McGill University in Montreal in the fall of 2013 and plans to continue to be involved in music.