Elora Grace Lencoski

Elora Grace Lencoski (1995) served this past summer as assistant conductor for the

National Music Festival (USA). After graduating from the Luzern Hochschule Musik,

Lencoski guest conducted the Oltenia Philharmonic in Craiova, Romania, where she returned

to conduct in 2026. In recent years, she conducted several concerts with the Shumen and

Vratsa Symphony Orchestras, and, in 2022, she participated in the competitive St. Andrew’s

Advanced Conducting Course. In 2023 and 2024, Lencoski was selected for the Orchestra’s

Conducting Democratic Competition as well as the Musikfest Ulm, Antal Dorati, and Hans

Swarowsky conducting competitions.

While studying conducting at the Mozarteum, Lencoski conducted several professional

ensembles, such as the Stiftung Mozarteum Orchester and Bad Reichnehaller

Philharmoninker, and gave the world premiere of Tian Fu’s Memories II. She has participated

in masterclasses with Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alondra de la Parra, and Alan Gilbert and

conducted the Moravian Philharmonic, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, and the

Polyphonic State Choir of Turkey. In the summer of 2019 she acted as the musical assistant at

Taschenoper Festival Salzburg. Lencoski was professionally engaged in Switzerland by

Orchester Muensingen and Collegium Musicum Luzern to cover rehearsals, and last year

jumped in as a rehearsal pianist at Festspiele Erl.