Robert Guy, 36, the artistic director of NEW Sinfonia which is the resident orchestra at the North Wales International Music Festival in St Asaph, will conduct a 30-piece London orchestra at Lucy’s concert on October 22 at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Singer Lucy Thomas, from Wigan, was catapulted to global fame after appearing on the ITV show, The Voice Kids UK, at the age of 14 in 2018, finishing as a semi-finalist. The 20-year-old has since released five highly acclaimed studio albums and boasts a rapidly rising worldwide following with close to one million subscribers on YouTube and more than 1.
5 billion views of videos featuring her recordings. Robert, who overcame childhood deafness to forge a successful career in music as a conductor, educator and entrepreneur, said the opportunity to conduct at her concert had arrived as a “bolt out the blue” and would see him fulfil one of his lifelong dreams - much earlier than he expected. He has also been appointed as the new principal conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and said: “It came out of nowhere! It’s the first time I’ll be heading to the West End and it’s really exciting – surreal, in fact.
“Chris was looking for the right person to work in the West End, someone who’d worked with orchestras and would be at ease with the experience. I’m pleased to say that my name had been recommended by someone at a local recording studio. “It’s a pretty big deal.