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Lucik Aprahamian is in demand as a choral, orchestral, and opera conductor. She begins the 2010-11 season as the new artistic director of the Phoenix-based choir, Arizona Women in Tune. She also joins Scottsdale Musical Arts as co-conductor where she will conduct orchestral works by Bizet, Copland, and others. Aprahamian is the co-artistic director of the Southern Arizona Opera. Last spring, under her baton, SAO presented a chamber version of Don Giovanni, and this season the company will perform two newly commissioned operas and scenes by Verdi. She is presently the choral director at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, and the assistant conductor of the Tucson Chamber Artists.

As part of her graduate work at the University of Arizona, Aprahamian was the assistant director of the UA Community Chorus with whom she performed major works in the choral repertoire. Also at the UA, she was the chorus-master for the Opera Theatre, directed the Honor Choir, and was a conductor for the Opera Theatre Scenes.

Before her move to Arizona, Aprahamian actively conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been the assistant conductor and chorus-master for various professional opera companies including Ensemble Parallèle, and Bayshore Lyric Opera. Her passion for contemporary music has led her to commission and premier works by local Bay Area composers including David Evan Jones's chamber opera, The Rehearsal, performed at the new music festival, April in Santa Cruz. She worked as the assistant conductor and director of the Opera Theatre Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz for over a decade on operas such as Don Giovanni, Street Scene, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Medium, Gianni Schicchi, L'Elisir d'amore, Carmen, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. While in Santa Cruz she was also the Director of the Student Staff Program for the internationally renowned Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music where she led the student orchestra for three seasons.

Aprahamian has held faculty positions at UCSC, Hartnell College, the International School of Monterey, Merit Academy, and Lynbrook High School. She received her master's degree in conducting from the University of California at Santa Cruz and is a doctoral candidate in conducting at the University of Arizona.