Lucia currently serves as the Academic Supervisor and Cello Teacher at the Magnificat Institute of Music in Jerusalem and as the Artistic Advisor at the Barenboim-Said Institute in Ramallah. She previously taught cello at the Al Kamandjati Music School in Ramallah and was the Head of the String Department at the Edward Said Conservatory.
During the war, Lucia created a program designed to offer music to children, helping to alleviate their fear and strengthen the community ties in East Jerusalem.
She conducts seminars for teachers and university students on how to teach music to children from diverse cultures and languages, especially in challenging social and environmental conditions. She has shared her experience in Jerusalem through seminars in Italy, Switzerland (Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana), and France (Conservatoire de Mulhouse).
Lucia also developed a project in East Jerusalem that trains advanced students and young teachers in music pedagogy, equipping them with the tools they need for their careers while creating job opportunities.
She won in March 2025 the junior research position for the project “Between Italy and Jerusalem: Retracing music, and Arts networks, enhancing education and promoting cultural heritage preservation” JERUS IT ARTS PNRR project with the research department of Digital Humanities of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia UNIMORE.
In addition, Lucia collaborates with the Italian-Swiss radio RSI to create content for podcasts and serves as a local correspondent for the Italian national radio, RAI Radio 2, for the program Caterpillar from East Jerusalem. She writes articles for L’osservatore Romano, La Prealpina di Varese and Nazione Indiana (an online magazine) and authored her first book of short stories, Terra non Promessa (Sonitus Editions) that in October 2025 won the prize “Microeditoria di alta qualità Chiari”.
